Explore 140 historical events from 1830–1839.
Jay Gould was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age…
Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (died 1892)
The Treaties of Velasco were two documents, one private and the other public, signed in Fort Velasco on May 14, 1836 between General Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Republic …
The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas
Joseph Gurney Cannon was an American politician from Illinois and a leader of the Republican Party. Cannon represented parts of Illinois in the United States House of Representativ…
Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1
Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder was a German composer of classical music, conductor, and pianist. He started in the Leipzig Conservatory, and went on to become a well-known com…
Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1916)
Alexander Mitscherlich was a German chemist and son of Eilhard Mitscherlich.
Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic (died 1918)
John Littlejohn was an English-born American tradesman, Methodist preacher and politician. Born in Penrith, Cumberland, he briefly attended trade school in London before returning …
John Littlejohn, American sheriff and Methodist preacher (born 1756)
The Republic of Texas, or simply Texas, was a short-lived sovereign country in North America from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. Texas was bordered by Mexico to the west and …
Forces of the Republic of Texas led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican troops of Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Bat
Francis Baily was an English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early his…
English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which
Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe, after Great Britain, to open a railway and produce locomotives…
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen
James Gordon Bennett Sr. was a British-born American businessman who was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American news…
James Gordon Bennett, Sr
Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of …
Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (died 1888)
Bertalan Székely was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic and Academic styles.
Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (died 1910)
Sir Thomas McIlwraith was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1879 to 1883, again in 1888, and for a third time…
Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (died 1900)
Charles N. Sims was an American Methodist preacher and the third chancellor of Syracuse University, serving from 1881 to 1893. Sims Hall and Sims drive on the Syracuse campus is na…
Charles N
František Chvostek was a Czech-Austrian military physician and lecturer in internal medicine. He published articles on a wide variety of medical disorders but is most notable for h…
František Chvostek, Czech-Austrian physician and academic (died 1884)
Hijikata Toshizō was a Japanese swordsman of the Bakumatsu period and Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi. As Vice-Commander, he served the Tokugawa Shogunate and co-led his group …
Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (died 1869)
Pope Pius X was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 until his death in August 1914. He was known for opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, and for pro…
Pope Pius X (died 1914)
Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controvers…
Alfred Austin, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1913)
John Nash was a British architect of the Georgian and Regency eras. He was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London…
John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (born 1752)
The Battle of Asseiceira, fought on 16 May, 1834, was the last and decisive engagement of the Portuguese Civil War, or "War of the Two Brothers", between Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of B…
The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal
Charles Lennox Richardson was a British merchant based in Shanghai, Qing Empire who was killed in Japan during the Namamugi Incident. His middle name is spelled Lenox in the census…
Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant (died 1862)
Charles Farrar Browne was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. Ward was the character of an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", whom…
Charles Farrar Browne, American author (died 1867)
Viktor Aleksandrovich Hartmann or Gartman was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamo…
Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (died 1873)
Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis was a Latvian, Baltic German architect. He was the first professional Latvian architect. Baumanis designed the Riga Circus in 1888. He was responsible for a…
Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (died 1891)