Explore 140 historical events from 1830–1839.
Hubert Howe Bancroft was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote, published, and collected works concerning the Western United States, Texas, California, Alaska, Mexico, Ce…
Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (died 1918)
Juris Alunāns was a Latvian writer and philologist in the Russian Empire. He was one of the first contributors of the Latvian language. He was one of the members of the Young Latvi…
Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and author (died 1864)
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz was a German mathematician who made contributions to mathematical analysis and differential geometry, as well as number theory, algebras with involu…
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (died 1903)
James Watney Jr. was a prominent member of the Watney family and a Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey.
James Watney, Jr
Zenas Ferry Moody was the seventh governor of Oregon from 1882 to 1887.
Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (died 1917)
Alexandre Charles Lecocq was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed…
Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (died 1918)
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet, who had also been her teacher.
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (born 1761)
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier …
Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (born 1769)
Sir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barriste…
James Mackintosh, Scottish historian, jurist, and politician (born 1765)
Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be so…
Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (born 1811)
Zina Hitchcock was a New York politician. A descendant of the early American colonist Samuel Chapin, he was born on November 6, 1755, in Warren or New Milford, Connecticut. His fat…
Zina Hitchcock, New York politician (born 1755)
Divisional-General Jean Maximilien Lamarque was a French army officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Lamarque served with distinction in…
Jean Maximilien Lamarque, French general and politician (born 1770)
Juan Godoy was a Chilean farmer and miner who in 1832 discovered an outcrop (reventón) of silver 50 km (31 mi) south of Copiapó in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush.
Prospector Juan Godoy discovered a silver outcrop in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush
The University of Alabama is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is th…
The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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…
James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole
Mary Louise Booth was an American editor, translator, and writer. She was the first editor-in-chief of the women's fashion magazine, Harper's Bazaar.
Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (died 1889)
Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rig…
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (died 1903)
David Edward Hughes, was a Welsh-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally …
David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (died 1900)
Henry Vandyke Carter was an English anatomist, surgeon, and anatomical artist most notable for his illustrations of the book Gray's Anatomy.
Henry Vandyke Carter, English anatomist and surgeon (died 1897)
John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
John Bell Hood, American general (died 1879)
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger was a German astronomer born at Simmozheim, Württemberg. He studied at the University of Tübingen. In 1798, he was appointed professor of…
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1765)
John Abernethy was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion.
John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (born 1764)
Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz was a Baltic German physician, naturalist, and entomologist. He was one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Pacific region, making s…
Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (born 1793)
Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the We…
Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (born 1799)