Explore 335 historical events from 1830–1839.
The 1834 looting of Safed was a month-long attack on the Jewish community of Safed in the Sidon Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire during the Peasants' revolt in Palestine. It began on S…
The looting of Safed commences
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478 and the first inquisitors, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín, were appointed by t…
The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
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)
Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter.
Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (died 1890)
Johann Bauschinger was a mathematician, builder, and professor of Engineering Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic, from 1868 until his death. The Bauschinger effect in materials scienc…
Johann Bauschinger, German mechanical engineer and physicist (died 1893)
Abbé Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie was professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique in Paris, and writer on apologetic subjects.
Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (died 1895)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as th…
Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (died 1892)
Frans Jozef de Cort, was a Flemish writer.
Frans de Cort, Flemish poet and author (died 1878)
William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.
William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (died 1920)
Jadwiga Łuszczewska was a Polish poet, novelist and salonniére. She was born and died in Warsaw.
Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (died 1908)
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack was a Dutch legal scholar, economist and historian, who is best known for his work De socialisten: Personen en stelsels.
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (died 1917)
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".
Jan Neruda, Czech journalist and poet (died 1891)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He es…
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (died 1903)
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1917)
Miguel María Grau Seminario was a Peruvian Navy officer and politician renowned for his role in the War of the Pacific. He earned the nickname "Gentleman of the Seas" for his kind …
Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (died 1879)
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join …
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (born 1757)
William Carey was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Se…
William Carey, English minister and missionary (born 1761)
Joseph Bové, also Joseph Jean-Baptiste Charles de Beauvais or Osip Ivanovich Bove, was an Italian-Russian neoclassical architect who supervised the reconstruction of Moscow after i…
Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (born 1784)
Edmond-Charles Genêt, also known as Citizen Genêt, was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution. His actions on arriving in the…
Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American diplomat (born 1763)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1772)
The Lê Văn Khôi revolt was an important revolt in 19th-century Vietnam, in which southern Vietnamese, Vietnamese Catholics, French Catholic missionaries and Chinese settlers under …
A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet
The Constitution of 1833 was the constitution used in Chile from 1833 to 1925 when it was replaced by the Constitution of 1925. One of the most long-lived constitutions of Latin Am…
The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated
Lê Văn Khôi was the adopted son of the Vietnamese general Lê Văn Duyệt. He led the 1833–1835 Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, but died in 1834.
Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi…
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in many navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general or air chief marshal in th…
Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.