Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rot…
William Cobbett, English farmer and journalist (born 1763)
Andreas Vokos, better known by his nickname Miaoulis, was a Greek revolutionary, admiral, and politician who commanded Greek naval forces during the Greek War of Independence (1821…
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769)
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)
Wenzel Müller was an Austrian composer and conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas.
Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1767)
Agnes Bulmer was an English poet. Her work Messiah's Kingdom is thought to be the longest epic poem ever written by a woman, and took over nine years to complete.
Agnes Bulmer, English merchant and poet (born 1775)
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)
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer of the early Romantic era famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings. A central…
Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (born 1801)
Muthuswami Dikshitar, was a South Indian Hindu poet, singer, veena player, and prolific composer of Indian classical music. He was the youngest member of the Trinity of Carnatic mu…
Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (born 1775)
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…
Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly …
Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian…
The Texas Revolution was a rebellion by Anglo-American immigrants as well as Hispanic Texans against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. A…
In the first major engagement of the Texas Revolution, the Texian Army repelled a Mexican attack at the grounds of…
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
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.
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
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…
The Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR), which opened in 1834, was Ireland's first passenger railway. It linked Westland Row in Dublin with Kingstown Harbour in County Dublin.
Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
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)
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)