Explore 335 historical events from 1830–1839.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks o…
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 1894)
Peter Paul von Mauser was a German weapon designer, manufacturer, industrialist and politician.
Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (died 1914)
Vatroslav Jagić was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century.
Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian philologist and scholar (died 1923)
Eli Lilly was an American Union Army officer, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded Eli Lilly and Company.
Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (died 1898)
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight unt…
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (died 1917)
William Paine Lord was an American Republican politician who served as the ninth governor of Oregon from 1895 to 1899. The Delaware native previously served as the 27th justice of …
William Paine Lord, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Oregon (died 1911)
Édouard Juda Colonne was a French conductor and violinist, and a champion of the music of Berlioz and other eminent 19th-century composers.
Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (died 1910)
Silas Stillman Soule was an American abolitionist, teenage conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and early example of what would later be called a "whistleblower…
Silas Soule, American soldier and whistleblower of the Sand Creek Massacre (died 1865)
Antoine Louis Dugès was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes. He was the father of zoologist Alfredo Dugès (1826–1910), and a nephew to midwi…
Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (born 1797)
John Augustin Daly was one of the most influential men in American theatre during his lifetime. Drama critic, theatre manager, playwright, and adapter, he became the first recogniz…
Augustin Daly, American playwright and manager (died 1899)
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland und…
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, English civil servant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died…
Auguste René Caillié was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordo…
René Caillié, French explorer and author (born 1799)
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theo…
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1754)
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 183…
François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (born 1774)
Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries f…
Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (born 1785)
Bernhard Henrik Crusell was a Finland-Swedish clarinetist, composer and translator, "the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed,…
Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (born 1775)
Indigenous Australians are the various Aboriginal Australian peoples of Australia, and the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. The terms Aboriginal and Torres …
At least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians were massacred at Myall Creek, New South Wales
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. It borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and D…
The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sa
In April 1837, a fire broke out in the Indian city of Surat, then under British East India Company rule. It resulted in more than 500 deaths and the destruction of 9,737 houses in …
The great fire in Surat city of India causes more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, simply referred to as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses along the …
The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece
The St. Joseph Mutiny was a mutiny which occurred in June 1837 among the 1st West India Regiment of the British Army. It began at the unit's barracks in St. Joseph, Trinidad, then …
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that began a major depression which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages dropped, westward expansion…
Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic d
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.3 mill…
Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas
The Broad Street Riot was a massive brawl that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 11, 1837, between Irish Americans and Yankee firefighters. An estimated 800 people were in…
The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish