Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. While in command…
William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (born 1756)
Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham was an English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, includin…
Samuel Bentham, English architect and engineer (born 1757)
Sarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified".
Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (born 1755)
Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski und Narten was a Prussian-born soldier serving as Russian field marshal. His dynasty is of Silesian origin. He stands among…
Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (born 1785)
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms, which paved the way for the unification …
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian minister and politician (born 1757)
Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education…
Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (born 1776)
Konstantin Pavlovich was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the heir presumptive for most of his elder brother A…
Konstantin Pavlovich, grand duke of Russia and the son of Emperor Paul I of Russia (born 1779)
James Monroe was an American Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well…
James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (born 1758)
Count Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron was a French military figure in the service of, first, the Kingdom of France, and later the Russian Empire.
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (born 1763)
Maria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, …
Maria Szymanowska, Polish composer and pianist (born 1789)
August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation.
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (born 1760)
John Aitken was a Scottish-American music publisher. For a period of over six years, he was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States and may have been the first Ameri…
John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (born 1745)
Count Ioannis Antoniou Kapodistrias, sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-centur…
Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (born 1776)
Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 18…
Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (born 1761)
Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. Today hi…
Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (born 1759)
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir James Clark Ross was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who explored both the North and South Poles. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions le…
British explorer James Clark Ross led the first expedition to reach the north magnetic pole
Wallachia is a geographical region of modern-day Romania, as well as one of the two historical Romanian principalities that laid the foundation for the establishment of the modern …
Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic, which engendered a period of reforms that provided for the…
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles under…
Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of…
The Russian Empire was the final period of the Russian monarchy. It spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic i…
The Russian Empire suppressed the November Uprising in Poland with the capture of Warsaw after a two-day assault.
William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded…
William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and…
The 1831 Bristol riots took place on 29–31 October 1831 and were part of the 1831 reform riots in England. The riots arose after the second Reform Bill was voted down in the House …
Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties…
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, sometimes referred to colloquially as the "Crab and Winkle Line", was an early British railway that opened in 1830 between Canterbury and Whi…
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the…
Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
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