Explore 603 historical events from 1830–1839.
Alexandre Charles Lecocq was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed…
Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (died 1918)
Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens was a 19th-century American socialite of Tennessee and Texas, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the Confederacy". She was also a Fir…
Lucy Pickens, American wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (died 1899)
Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov was a Russian painter and art teacher, active in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo from Tsar Alexander II's reign through the Civil War days. He is known…
Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (died 1919)
Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
Maximilian I of Mexico (died 1867)
Alvan Graham Clark was an American astronomer and telescope-maker.
Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (died 1897)
Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.
Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1896)
George Lemuel Woods was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Woods served as the third governor of Oregon from 1866 to 1870. Failing to win …
George Lemuel Woods, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Governor of Oregon (died 1890)
Ivan von Zajc, was a Croatian composer, conductor, director, and teacher who dominated Croatia's musical culture for over forty years. Through his artistic and institutional reform…
Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director (died 1914)
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philo…
Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and physiologist (died 1920)
Antonio Agliardi was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.
Antonio Agliardi, Italian cardinal (died 1915)
Joachim (Ḥayyim) Oppenheim, also known as Joachim Heinrich Oppenheim, was a Czech rabbi and author.
Joachim Oppenheim, Czech rabbi and author (died 1891)
Miguel Gregorio de la Luz Atenógenes Miramón y Tarelo, known as Miguel Miramón, was a Mexican conservative general who disputed the Mexican presidency with Benito Juárez at the age…
Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico (died 1867)
Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis was a social activist and community organizer during the American Civil War era. She is recognized as the mother who inspired Mother's Day and as a founder …
Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (died 1905)
Caroline Lavinia Harrison was an American music teacher, artist, and the first lady of the United States from 1889 until her death in 1892. She was married to President Benjamin Ha…
Caroline Harrison, American educator, 24th First Lady of the United States (died 1892)
Henry Clay Work was an American songwriter and composer. He is best remembered for his musical contributions to the Union in the Civil War: songs documenting the afflictions of sla…
Henry Clay Work, American composer and songwriter (died 1884)
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology.
Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (died 1917)
Charles Crozat Converse was an American attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "W…
Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer (died 1918)
Vicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero better known as Vicente Riva Palacio was a Mexican liberal politician, novelist, journalist, intellectual, historian, and military le…
Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (died 1896)
Johannes Wilhelm Constantin Lipsius was a German architect and architectural theorist, best known for his controversial design of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Exhibition Buil…
Constantin Lipsius, German architect and theorist (died 1894)
August Labitzky was a Bohemian composer and kapellmeister, and the son of Joseph Labitzky. Although Labitzky was not as prolific a composer as his father, his Ouverture Characteris…
August Labitzky, Czech composer and conductor (died 1903)
Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg was a Finnish priest, who worked as a chaplain in Alavieska and as a deputy pastor in Haapajärvi. He is best known as the father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the fir…
Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg, Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (died 1873)
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia was a Russian field marshal, the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. He was the first ow…
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (died 1909)
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet, who had also been her teacher.
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (born 1761)
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier …
Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (born 1769)