Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
Annie Edson Taylor was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator (died 1921)
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Car…
Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (died 1875)
James Maybrick was a British cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of murdering him by poisoning in a sensational trial. The "Aigburth Poison…
James Maybrick, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning" (died 1889)
John Davis Long was an American lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. He was the 32nd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1880 to 1883. He later served as the secr…
John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1915)
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)
Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current in Hungary regarding the politics involving the Austrian …
Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (born 1790)
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what be…
William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (born 1770)
Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend…
Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (born 1764)
Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois, was a French chemist credited with first isolating iodine, making early photography possible.
Bernard Courtois, French chemist and pharmacist (born 1777)
Charles Tennant was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.
Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (born 1768)
Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa, known in English as Black Hawk, was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States. Although he had inherited an importa…
Black Hawk, American tribal leader (born 1767)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and she developed the metri…
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)
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
The Cherokee or Tsalagi people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ance…
A Cherokee band attacked settlers near Larissa, Texas, killing or abducting 18 people.
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