Explore 335 historical events from 1830–1839.
The Noongar are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. There are 14 …
Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which abolished slavery in the British Empire by way of compensated emancipation. The act was legi…
The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of Commons, initiating the gradual abolition of slavery in most…
Jean-Baptiste Accolay was a Belgian violin teacher, violinist, conductor, and composer of the romantic period. His best-known composition is his one-movement student concerto in A …
Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1900)
Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist. He is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstra…
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (died 1905)
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, o…
Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (died 1897)
Félix Henri Bracquemond was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker. He played a key role in the revival of printmaking, encouraging artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and…
Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (died 1914)
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was a Spanish politician. He served as Prime Minister of Spain for a little over ten weeks, in the summer of 1871, and again for eight months, between June 187…
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1895)
José Manuel del Refugio González Flores was a Mexican general and liberal politician who served as the 35th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884.
Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president (died 1893)
José Manuel del Refugio González Flores was a Mexican general and liberal politician who served as the 35th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884.
Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (died 1893)
Peter Waage was a Norwegian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Kristiania. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and develop…
Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist and academic (died 1900)
Thomas George Bonney was an English geologist, president of the Geological Society of London.
Thomas George Bonney, English geologist, mountaineer, and academic (died 1923)
John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is oft…
John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer, associate justice of the U
Mary Davy Tenney Gray was a 19th-century American editorial writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, and suffragist from Pennsylvania, who later became a resident of Kansas. She lived in…
Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904)
Félicien Victor Joseph Rops was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle, and was a member of the Les XX group. He was a painter, illus…
Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1898)
Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator. After seeing action at the capture of Charleston during the American Rev…
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born
Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engi…
Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (born 1771)
William Babington FRS FGS was an Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist.
William Babington, Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (born 1756)
Sophia Campbell was an early Australian settler. She was the wife of politician Robert Campbell.
Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (born 1777)
Robert Hett Chapman was a Presbyterian minister and missionary and the second president of the University of North Carolina.
Robert Hett Chapman, American minister, missionary, and academic (born 1771)
Joseph-Nicolas-Blaise Forlenze, was an Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon, considered one of the most important ophthalmologists between the 18th and the 19th century. He was most…
Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (born 1757)
Anselmo de la Cruz y Bahamonde was a Chilean political figure. He served several times as minister and participated actively in the war of independence in that country.
Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean politician, Chilean Minister of Finance (born 1777)
Oliver Wolcott Jr. was an American politician and judge. He was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circui…
Oliver Wolcott Jr
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas y Dávila was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as the first Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata from 31 January 1…
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the…
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving produ…
Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (born 1765)