Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
The 1833 Nepal–India earthquake occurred on August 26 at 22:58 local time (NPT). This earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of 7.6–7.9 and struck with an epicenter somewhere…
The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage in Nepal, northern India and Tibet, a total of 500…
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 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the…
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was a Spanish politician. He served as Prime Minister of Spain for a little over ten weeks, in the summer of 1871, and again for eight months, between June 187…
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1895)
John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is oft…
John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer, associate justice of the U
José Manuel del Refugio González Flores was a Mexican general and liberal politician who served as the 35th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884.
Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president (died 1893)
José Manuel del Refugio González Flores was a Mexican general and liberal politician who served as the 35th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884.
Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (died 1893)
Mary Davy Tenney Gray was a 19th-century American editorial writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, and suffragist from Pennsylvania, who later became a resident of Kansas. She lived in…
Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904)
Peter Waage was a Norwegian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Kristiania. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and develop…
Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist and academic (died 1900)
Thomas George Bonney was an English geologist, president of the Geological Society of London.
Thomas George Bonney, English geologist, mountaineer, and academic (died 1923)
Carola of Vasa, was by birth a titular princess of Sweden and styled Princess of Vasa as member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, and by marriage the last Queen of Saxony.
Carola of Vasa (died 1907)
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 1899)
Félicien Victor Joseph Rops was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle, and was a member of the Les XX group. He was a painter, illus…
Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1898)
Kido Takayoshi , formerly known as Katsura Kogorō , was a Japanese statesman, samurai and shishi who is considered one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration.
Kido Takayoshi, Japanese samurai and politician (died 1877)
William Price Sanders was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War who died at the Siege of Knoxville.
William P. Sanders, American army officer (died 1863)
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, Will…
Benjamin Harrison, American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States (died 1901)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (died 1898)
George Huntington Hartford headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and exp…
George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (died 1917)
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! …
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)
John Quincy Adams II was an American politician who represented Quincy in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867, 1868 to 1869, 1871 to 1872, and from 1874 to…
John Quincy Adams II, American politician and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (died 1894)
Stephen Dill Lee was an American officer in the Confederate Army, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. He served as lieutenant general…
Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (died 1908)
John Alexander MacPherson, Australian colonial politician, was the 7th Premier of Victoria.
John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)
José Eduvigis Díaz Vera was a Paraguayan general. Díaz was born in the town of Cerro Verá east of Pirayú in the department of Paraguarí. His parents were Juan Andrés Díaz and Dolor…
José E. Días, Paraguayan general (died 1867)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. Nobel is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the N…
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator. After seeing action at the capture of Charleston during the American Rev…
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born