Explore 495 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)
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)
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)
Bhaktivinoda Thakur, born Kedarnath Datta, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and spiritual reformer of Gaudiya Vaishnavism who effected its resurgence in India in late 19th and…
Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (died 1914)
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…
Liliʻuokalani was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on Januar…
Liliʻuokalani, Last sovereign monarch of Hawaiʻi (died 1917)
Samuel Bland Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer involved in a plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He had joined the Confederate Army shortly after th…
Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (died 1906)
John Ireland was an Irish-American prelate who was the third Catholic bishop and first archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1888–1918). He became both a religious as well as civic …
John Ireland, Irish-American archbishop (died 1918)
James Jerome Hill was an American railway entrepreneur. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial are…
James J. Hill, Canadian-American railroad executive (died 1916)
Anthonij "Anton" Rudolf Mauve was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. A master co…
Anton Mauve, Dutch painter and educator (died 1888)
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)
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)
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)
Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian and American librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celeb…
Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (born 1749)
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)
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt…
Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (born 1781)