Explore 418 historical events from 1830–1839.
Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies i…
Walter Pater, English author, critic, and academic (died 1894)
Nelson Appleton Miles was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War (1861–1865), the last stages of the American Indian Wars (1840–1890), and the Spanish–Am…
Nelson A. Miles, American general (died 1925)
Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov.
Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist and academic (died 1896)
Antonín Petrof was a Czech entrepreneur and piano maker.
Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (died 1915)
Counter-Admiral Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin was a French Navy officer and explorer. He fought in numerous naval engagements during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars a…
Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French admiral and explorer (born 1768)
Ferdinando Paer was an Italian composer known for his operas. He was of Austrian descent and used the German spelling Pär in application for printing in Venice, and later in France…
Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (born 1771)
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his …
Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (born 1784)
Archibald Alison was a Scottish Anglican priest and essayist.
Archibald Alison, Scottish priest and author (born 1757)
Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,, known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of the Bengal …
Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (born 1774)
Ranjit Singh was the founder and the first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839.
Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (born 1780)
Mahmud II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, mi…
Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (born 1785)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed —typically written as W. Mackworth Praed—was an English politician and poet.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (born 1802)
Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnière…
Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (born 1755)
Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel was a German novelist and translator.
Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (born 1763)
Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, was a British Member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Cornwall and Grand Master of the Freemasons. Born in London, he succeeded to the baronetcy on 12…
Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English lawyer and politician (born 1758)
William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, credited with creating the first detailed, nationwide geological map of any country. At the time his map was first published he was…
William Smith, English geologist and engineer (born 1769)
The French Army is the land service branch of the French Armed Forces. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate to the Chief of th…
The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 square kilometres (50,340 sq mi). With a population of…
Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
The Myall Creek massacre was the killing of at least 28 unarmed Aboriginal people in the Colony of New South Wales by eight colonists on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek in the nort…
Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered
The coronation of Victoria as queen of the United Kingdom took place on Thursday, 28 June 1838, just over a year after she succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age …
Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1838, until December 28, 1846, when the southeastern portion of the territory …
The Iowa Territory is organized.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of …
Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and…
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, also called François Lecoq de Boisbaudran, was a self-taught French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium an…
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (died 1912)
John Muir, also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist…
John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist and author (died 1914)