Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
Adah Isaacs Menken was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time. She was best known for her performance in the hippodrama Mazeppa, wit…
Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter, and poet (died 1868)
Johannes Wislicenus was a German chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry.
Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (died 1902)
Thomas Wallace Knox was an American journalist, author, and world traveler, known primarily for his work as a New York Herald correspondent during the American Civil War. As an aut…
Thomas W
Celia Thaxter was an American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she lived with her father on the Isles of Shoals at his Appledore Hotel. How she grew up to become…
Celia Thaxter, American poet and story writer (died 1894)
Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer, and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history. His younger brother Józef Wieniaws…
Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (died 1880)
Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón was a Guatemalan politician and military general who served as President of Guatemala from 1873 to his death in 1885. He was known for his liberal reform…
Justo Rufino Barrios, Guatemalan president (died 1885)
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of moder…
Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
Eugène Henri Brisson was a French statesman, who was twice Prime Minister of France, between 1885–1886 and in 1898.
Henri Brisson, French lawyer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (died 1912)
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence …
Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and explorer (died 1903)
Hjalmar Frederik Christian Kiærskou, sometimes also stated as Hjalmar Kiaerskov, was a Danish botanist.
Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (died 1900)
Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja was a Russian Imperial and Ukrainian linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the I…
Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)
Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 i…
Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric (died 1901)
Thomas Wentworth Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited with being Australia's first cricketer of significance and a founder of Australian rules football. Born in the Br…
Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football (died 1880)
Ádám Politzer was a Hungarian and Austrian physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.
Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician and anatomist (died 1920)
Jane Elizabeth Kempton was an American contralto opera solo singer who had an active career spanning over fifty years starting in 1850. She sang in hundreds of performances across …
Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (died 1921)
Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and sta…
Felix Draeseke, German composer and educator (died 1913)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the …
Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (died 1921)
Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars was a Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor. Assuming perspectives from the positivism philosophical school, his main work was Udsigt over den…
Ernst Sars, Norwegian historian (died 1917)
Theodore Thomas was a German-American violinist, conductor, and orchestrator. He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music …
Theodore Thomas, American conductor, founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (died 1905)
Louis-Léon Cugnot was a French sculptor.
Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (died 1894)
Paul Haenlein was a German engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible. His family belonged to the Citoyens notables, those notabilities who led the econom…
Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (died 1905)
John Nash was a British architect of the Georgian and Regency eras. He was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London…
John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (born 1752)
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland. A mem…
Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (died 1914)
Gian Domenico Romagnosi was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist.
Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (born 1761)