Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
The Palace of Westminster, the medieval royal palace used as the home of the British parliament, was largely destroyed by fire on 16 October 1834. The blaze was caused by the burni…
Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
The Pinjarra massacre, in the past called the Battle of Pinjarra, occurred on 28 October 1834 in Pinjarra, Western Australia when a group of Bindjareb Noongar people were attacked …
The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
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)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, in New York Ci…
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (died 1904)
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and co…
John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1923)
Marshall Field was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores.
Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field's (died 1906)
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a profe…
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (died 1906)
Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla.
Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and educator (died 1886)
Joseph Henry Shorthouse was an English novelist. His first novel, John Inglesant, was particularly admired as a "philosophical romance". It discusses a religious intrigue in the En…
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (died 1903)
Walter Kittredge, was a famous American minstrel and songwriter. Over his career he wrote over 500 songs, many of them dealing with themes of abolitionism and the American Civil Wa…
Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (died 1905)
Aleksis Kivi was a Finnish writer who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä, published in 1870. He is also known for his 1864 play, Nummisuu…
Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (died 1872)
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)