Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
Joseph Bové, also Joseph Jean-Baptiste Charles de Beauvais or Osip Ivanovich Bove, was an Italian-Russian neoclassical architect who supervised the reconstruction of Moscow after i…
Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (born 1784)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1772)
Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of…
Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (born 1793)
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join …
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (born 1757)
Edmond-Charles Genêt, also known as Citizen Genêt, was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution. His actions on arriving in the…
Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American diplomat (born 1763)
Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an import…
Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (born 1752)
Husein Gradaščević (Husein-kapetan), also known as Zmaj od Bosne, was an Ottoman Bosnian military commander who led an uprising against the Tanzimat, a system of political reforms …
Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (born 1802)
Thomas Telford was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in hi…
Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (born 1757)
James Weddell was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S, a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarcti…
James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (born 1787)
Dom Pedro I, known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" or "the Soldier King" in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and Kin…
Pedro I of Brazil (born 1798)
François-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". Although his reputation is largely based upon his operas, Boieldieu composed ot…
François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (born 1775)
The 1834 Philadelphia race riot, also known as the Flying Horses riot, was an instance of communal violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The riot, in which a mob o…
A race riot in Philadelphia destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people.
The 1834 Philadelphia race riot, also known as the Flying Horses riot, was an instance of communal violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The riot, in which a mob o…
A race riot in Philadelphia, United States, destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people.
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England. It is colloquially known as the Houses of Parliament after…
Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire caused by the burning of wooden tally sticks.
The Lê Văn Khôi revolt was an important revolt in 19th-century Vietnam, in which southern Vietnamese, Vietnamese Catholics, French Catholic missionaries and Chinese settlers under …
A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet
The Constitution of 1833 was the constitution used in Chile from 1833 to 1925 when it was replaced by the Constitution of 1925. One of the most long-lived constitutions of Latin Am…
The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated
Lê Văn Khôi was the adopted son of the Vietnamese general Lê Văn Duyệt. He led the 1833–1835 Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, but died in 1834.
Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi…
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in many navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general or air chief marshal in th…
Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
The Noongar are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. There are 14 …
Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which abolished slavery in the British Empire by way of compensated emancipation. The act was legi…
The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of Commons, initiating the gradual abolition of slavery in most…
Jean-Baptiste Accolay was a Belgian violin teacher, violinist, conductor, and composer of the romantic period. His best-known composition is his one-movement student concerto in A …
Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1900)
Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist. He is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstra…
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (died 1905)
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, o…
Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (died 1897)
Félix Henri Bracquemond was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker. He played a key role in the revival of printmaking, encouraging artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and…
Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (died 1914)