Explore 418 historical events from 1830–1839.
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.
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.
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)
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…
The 1833 Nepal–India earthquake occurred on August 26 at 22:58 local time (NPT). This earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of 7.6–7.9 and struck with an epicenter somewhere…
The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage in Nepal, northern India and Tibet, a total of 500…
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 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the…
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)
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
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)
Carola of Vasa, was by birth a titular princess of Sweden and styled Princess of Vasa as member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, and by marriage the last Queen of Saxony.
Carola of Vasa (died 1907)
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 1899)
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)
Kido Takayoshi , formerly known as Katsura Kogorō , was a Japanese statesman, samurai and shishi who is considered one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration.
Kido Takayoshi, Japanese samurai and politician (died 1877)
William Price Sanders was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War who died at the Siege of Knoxville.
William P. Sanders, American army officer (died 1863)
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, Will…
Benjamin Harrison, American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States (died 1901)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (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