Explore 495 historical events from 1830–1839.
André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He ma…
André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote The History…
James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (born 1773)
James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as…
James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, also known as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a British-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main, he was the third of the fiv…
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (born 1777)
Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which showed that the Fourier transform is unitary.
Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (born 1755)
Claude-Louis Navier was a French civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (born 1785)
Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and playwright.
Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (born 1790)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. …
Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (born 1801)
José Gaspar Flores de Abrego (1781–1836) was a Tejano who served three terms as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He was also a land commissioner and associate of Austin's early col…
Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three-term mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (born 1781)
Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first pr…
Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (born 1756)
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classif…
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and author (born 1748)
The Republic of Texas, or simply Texas, was a short-lived sovereign country in North America from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. Texas was bordered by Mexico to the west and …
Forces of the Republic of Texas led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican troops of Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Bat
Francis Baily was an English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early his…
English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which
James Gordon Bennett Sr. was a British-born American businessman who was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American news…
James Gordon Bennett, Sr
James Bowman Lindsay was a Scottish inventor and writer. He is credited with early developments in several fields, such as incandescent lighting and telegraphy.
James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland.
The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835", was a series of six articles published in The Sun, beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of…
The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization…
Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe, after Great Britain, to open a railway and produce locomotives…
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen
Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus wit…
P. T. Barnum begins his career as a showman and circus entrepreneur by exhibiting Joice Heth, an octogenerian African…
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia. The city's name generally refers to a 9,993-squa…
Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1…
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the…
The Ragamuffin War, also known as the Ragamuffin Revolution or Heroic Decade, was a republican uprising that began in southern Brazil during the regency period, centered in the pro…
The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of …
Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (died 1888)
Bertalan Székely was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic and Academic styles.
Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (died 1910)
Sir Thomas McIlwraith was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1879 to 1883, again in 1888, and for a third time…
Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (died 1900)