Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
Hannah More was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and verse dramatist. She was active the circles of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick and wrote on moral and …
Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (born 1745)
William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began …
William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (born 1759)
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian social reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform mov…
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian and reformer (born 1772)
Ferdinand VII was King of Spain and the Indies during the early 19th century, and king of the Spains during the Spanish liberal period. He reigned as a prisoner of Napoleon, in abs…
Ferdinand VII of Spain (born 1784)
François Charles Louis, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat was a French general and military engineer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer (born 1754)
Abbas Mirza was the Qajar crown prince of Iran during the reign of his father Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. As governor of the vulnerable Azerbaijan province, he played a crucial part in th…
Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (born 1789)
The Siamese–Vietnamese wars were a series of armed conflicts between the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom and Rattanakosin Kingdom and the various dynasties of Vietnam mainly during the 1…
Siamese–Vietnamese wars: Lê Văn Khôi escaped from prison to begin a revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, primarily to aveng
Yagan was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butl…
Yagan, a Noongar warrior wanted for leading attacks on British colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a…
The Spanish American wars of independence were a series of conflicts that took place across the Spanish Empire during the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres bega…
The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the…
The London Conference of 1832 was an international conference convened to establish a stable government in Greece. Negotiations among the three Great Powers resulted in the establi…
Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London
Juan Godoy was a Chilean farmer and miner who in 1832 discovered an outcrop (reventón) of silver 50 km (31 mi) south of Copiapó in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush.
Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush
The Kingdom of Greece was the Greek state established in 1832 by the Treaty of Constantinople, which formally recognised Greece as an independent state and established it as a mona…
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference
The Battle of Stillman's Run, also known as the Battle of Sycamore Creek or the Battle of Old Man's Creek, occurred in Illinois on May 14, 1832. The battle was named for the panick…
The Battle of Stillman's Run, the first battle of the Black Hawk War, was fought
Ibrahim Pasha was an Egyptian general and politician; he was the commander of both the Egyptian and Ottoman armies and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman Wāli and unrecogn…
An Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha captures Acre from the Ottomans after a five-months siege
The June Rebellion, also called the Paris Uprising of 1832, was an anti-monarchist insurrection of Parisian republicans on 5 and 6 June 1832.
The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe