Explore 495 historical events from 1830–1839.
Otto Staudinger was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, sci…
Otto Staudinger, German entomologist and author (died 1900)
John Batterson Stetson was an American hat maker who invented the cowboy hat in the 1860s. He founded the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and it bec…
John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B
Zebulon Baird Vance was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 37th and 43rd governor of North Carolina, a U.S. senator from North Carolina, and a Confederate officer …
Zebulon Baird Vance, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of North Carolina (died 1894)
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont was a French general, diplomat, and statesman who was named Marshal of France in 1830. A lifelong royalist, he emigrated from Fr…
After inflicting a series of defeats on Algerian forces, the French army under the Comte de Bourmont captures Algier.
Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuou…
The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered…
The July Revolution, also known as the French Revolution of 1830, Second French Revolution, or les Trois Glorieuses, was a second French Revolution after the first of 1789–99. It l…
July Revolution: Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the…
Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as…
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in…
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) opened on 15 September 1830. Work on the L&M had begun in the 1820s, to connect the textile mills of the city of Manchester with the near…
The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway…
Antonio Annetto Caruana, also known as A. A. Caruana, was a Maltese archaeologist and author.
Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (died 1905)
Hector-Henri Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic …
Hector Malot, French author (died 1907)
Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. The most famous and a celebrated work is The Rooks Have Returned.
Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (died 1897)
Carmine Crocco, known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, was an Italian brigand. Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (died 1905)
Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education. In her early life, …
Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University
Robert Williams, usually referred to by his bardic name Trebor Mai, was a Welsh language poet, born at Ty'n-yr-ardd near Llanrhychwyn, near Llanrwst, in the old county of Caernarfo…
Trebor Mai (né Robert Williams), Welsh poet (died 1877)
Frederick William Seward was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served twice as the Assistant Secretary of State. He served as Assistant Secretary from 1…
Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1915)
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to bo…
Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (died 1903)
Sir Clements Robert Markham was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the …
Clements Markham, English explorer (died 1916)
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.…
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria from 1848-1916 (died 1916)
Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The Russian chemist Dmitri …
Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (died 1895)
Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the…
Frédéric Mistral, French poet and lexicographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
William Sprague IV was an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Rhode Island from 1860 to 1863, and a U.S. senator from 1863 to 1875. He participated in the First …
William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (died 1915)
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach née Countess Dubsky was an Austrian writer and a noblewoman. Noted for her psychological novels, she is regarded as one of the most important Ge…
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (died 1916)
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, commonly known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican army general and politician who was the president of Mexico from 1876 until his overthrow in 1911…
Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (died 1915)