Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
Marie Joseph François Garnier was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commi…
Francis Garnier, French captain and explorer (died 1873)
Ignacio Andrade Troconis was a military man and politician. He was known as a member of the Liberal yellow party, and served as the president of Venezuela from 1898 until 1899 – hi…
Ignacio Andrade, Venezuelan general and politician, 25th President of Venezuela (died 1925)
Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies i…
Walter Pater, English author, critic, and academic (died 1894)
Nelson Appleton Miles was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War (1861–1865), the last stages of the American Indian Wars (1840–1890), and the Spanish–Am…
Nelson A. Miles, American general (died 1925)
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in history. Rockefelle…
John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (died 1937)
Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov.
Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist and academic (died 1896)
Antonín Petrof was a Czech entrepreneur and piano maker.
Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (died 1915)
Gulstan Ropert, SS.CC., of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary served as the third vicar apostolic of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands - now the …
Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (died 1903)
Henry George was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Pro…
Henry George, American economist and author (died 1897)
Isaac Kaufmann Funk was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company, the father of auth…
Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (died 1912)
Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss…
Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (died 1914)
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel was a German palaeontologist best known for his Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–1893).
Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (died 1904)
Edward Payson Allen was an American Civil War veteran and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to…
Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer, and politician (died 1909)
Counter-Admiral Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin was a French Navy officer and explorer. He fought in numerous naval engagements during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars a…
Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French admiral and explorer (born 1768)
Ferdinando Paer was an Italian composer known for his operas. He was of Austrian descent and used the German spelling Pär in application for printing in Venice, and later in France…
Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (born 1771)
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his …
Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (born 1784)
Archibald Alison was a Scottish Anglican priest and essayist.
Archibald Alison, Scottish priest and author (born 1757)
Alfred Sisley was a French-born British Impressionist landscape painter, born in Paris to British expatriate parents. Considered the most consistent of the Impressionists in his de…
Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (died 1899)
Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,, known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of the Bengal …
Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (born 1774)
Ranjit Singh was the founder and the first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839.
Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (born 1780)
Mahmud II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, mi…
Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (born 1785)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed —typically written as W. Mackworth Praed—was an English politician and poet.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (born 1802)
Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnière…
Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (born 1755)
Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel was a German novelist and translator.
Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (born 1763)