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===April–June=== * [[April 1]] – General [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]] is elected [[President of Mexico]] by the legislatures of 16 of the 18 Mexican states. During his frequent absences from office to fight on the battlefield, Santa Anna turns the duties of government over to his vice president, [[Valentín Gómez Farías]].<ref>Will Fowler, ''Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)</ref> * [[April 18]] – Over 300 delegates from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime Minister, the [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey|Earl Grey]], to call for the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.<ref>Iain Whyte, ''Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838: The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement'' (Liverpool University Press, 2011)</ref> * [[May 6]] ** In Germany, [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] and [[Wilhelm Eduard Weber|Wilhelm Weber]] obtain permission to build an [[electrical telegraph|electromagnetic telegraph]] in [[Göttingen]]. ** The [[Ottoman Empire]] promulgates a [[firman]] ratifying the [[Convention of Kütahya|Peace Agreement of Kütahya]], bringing an end to the [[Egyptian–Ottoman_War_(1831–1833)|Egyptian-Ottoman War]]. ** In [[Alexandria, Virginia]], an attack is made on U.S. President [[Andrew Jackson]]. * [[May 10]] – The [[Le Van Khoi revolt]] breaks out in southern Vietnam against Emperor [[Minh Mang]], who has desecrated the deceased mandarin [[Le Van Duyet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Huỳnh Minh|year=2006|title=Gia Định Xưa|place=[[Ho Chi Minh City]]|publisher=Văn Hóa-Thông Tin Publishing House|language=vi|page=133}}</ref> * [[May 11]] – At least 170 people, and perhaps as many as 265, are killed when the British [[brig]] ''[[Lady of the Lake (brig)|Lady of the Lake]]'', sinks off [[Cape St. Francis (Newfoundland and Labrador)|Cape St. Francis]] at [[Newfoundland]]. Only 15 people survive.<ref>Thomas, R. (1848). [https://books.google.com/books?id=GW1GAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA356 ''Interesting and authentic narratives of the most remarkable shipwrecks, fires, famines, calamities, providential deliverances, and lamentable disasters on the seas: in most parts of the world'']. Silas Andrus & Son. p. 356-7.</ref> * [[May 25]] – The [[Chilean Constitution of 1833]] is promulgated. * [[June 5]] – [[Ada Lovelace]] is introduced to [[Charles Babbage]], a pioneer in developing a computer, by [[Mary Somerville]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Hyman|author-link=R. Anthony Hyman|title=[[Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1982|isbn=0-19-858170-X|pages=177–8}}</ref> * [[June 9]] – [[Dubai]] gets independence from the United Kingdom and is founded as a city. * [[June 29]] – An earthquake at [[Fort Nisqually]] is experienced by [[William Fraser Tolmie]]; his journal entry records the first written eyewitness account of an earthquake in the [[Puget Sound]] region.
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