Explore 495 historical events from 1830–1839.
John MacCulloch FRS was a Scottish geologist. He was the first geologist to be employed by the government in Britain and is best known for his pioneering texts on geology and for p…
John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (born 1773)
Ebenezer Pemberton was an American educator and 2nd Principal of Phillips Academy Andover from 1786 to 1793. Refusing to follow his uncle's wishes to become a clergyman, Pemberton …
Ebenezer Pemberton, American educator (born 1746)
John Marshall was an American statesman, jurist, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the l…
John Marshall, American captain and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (born 1755)
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duke of Treviso, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon I, who served during the French Revolutionary Wars…
Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (born 1768)
The Sun was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, The New York Times and the New …
The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon…
The Battle of Asseiceira, fought on 16 May, 1834, was the last and decisive engagement of the Portuguese Civil War, or "War of the Two Brothers", between Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of B…
The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal
Joaquim António de Aguiar was a Portuguese politician. He held several relevant political posts during the Portuguese constitutional monarchy, namely as leader of the Cartists and …
Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and an
Beginning on July 7, 1834, New York City was torn by a huge anti-abolitionist riot that lasted for nearly a week until it was put down by military force. "At times the rioters cont…
In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
The Wilberforce Monument is a monument honouring English politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce in Kingston Upon Hull, England. The ashlar structure consists of a Doric co…
Construction begins on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
Charles Lennox Richardson was a British merchant based in Shanghai, Qing Empire who was killed in Japan during the Namamugi Incident. His middle name is spelled Lenox in the census…
Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant (died 1862)
Charles Farrar Browne was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. Ward was the character of an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", whom…
Charles Farrar Browne, American author (died 1867)
The 1834 looting of Safed was a month-long attack on the Jewish community of Safed in the Sidon Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire during the Peasants' revolt in Palestine. It began on S…
The looting of Safed commences
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478 and the first inquisitors, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín, were appointed by t…
The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the…
Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains…
Viktor Aleksandrovich Hartmann or Gartman was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamo…
Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (died 1873)
Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis was a Latvian, Baltic German architect. He was the first professional Latvian architect. Baumanis designed the Riga Circus in 1888. He was responsible for a…
Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (died 1891)
Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter.
Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (died 1890)
Johann Bauschinger was a mathematician, builder, and professor of Engineering Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic, from 1868 until his death. The Bauschinger effect in materials scienc…
Johann Bauschinger, German mechanical engineer and physicist (died 1893)
Abbé Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie was professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique in Paris, and writer on apologetic subjects.
Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (died 1895)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as th…
Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (died 1892)
Frans Jozef de Cort, was a Flemish writer.
Frans de Cort, Flemish poet and author (died 1878)
William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.
William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (died 1920)
Jadwiga Łuszczewska was a Polish poet, novelist and salonniére. She was born and died in Warsaw.
Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (died 1908)
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack was a Dutch legal scholar, economist and historian, who is best known for his work De socialisten: Personen en stelsels.
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (died 1917)