Explore 202 historical events from 1830–1839.
Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics. His work in economics has al…
Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (died 1900)
Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia was a great-granddaughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia and the wife of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, the elder.
Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (died 1900)
Frederic Archer was a British composer, conductor and organist, born in Oxford. He moved to the US in 1880, where he established the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Frederic Archer, English organist, composer, and conductor (died 1901)
Cushman Kellogg Davis was an American Republican politician who served as the seventh governor of Minnesota and as a U.S. senator from Minnesota.
Cushman Kellogg Davis, American lieutenant and politician, 7th Governor of Minnesota (died 1900)
Prince Yamagata Aritomo was a Japanese statesman and general who twice served as prime minister of Japan, in 1889–1891 and 1898–1900. He was a leading member of the genrō, a group …
Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1922)
Antoine Louis Dugès was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes. He was the father of zoologist Alfredo Dugès (1826–1910), and a nephew to midwi…
Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (born 1797)
Auguste René Caillié was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordo…
René Caillié, French explorer and author (born 1799)
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theo…
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1754)
Indigenous Australians are the various Aboriginal Australian peoples of Australia, and the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. The terms Aboriginal and Torres …
At least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians were massacred at Myall Creek, New South Wales
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. It borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and D…
The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sa
In April 1837, a fire broke out in the Indian city of Surat, then under British East India Company rule. It resulted in more than 500 deaths and the destruction of 9,737 houses in …
The great fire in Surat city of India causes more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, simply referred to as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses along the …
The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece
The St. Joseph Mutiny was a mutiny which occurred in June 1837 among the 1st West India Regiment of the British Army. It began at the unit's barracks in St. Joseph, Trinidad, then …
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William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded…
King William IV dies, and is succeeded by his niece, Victoria
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that began a major depression which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages dropped, westward expansion…
Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic d
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head o…
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Fredrik Bajer was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson.
Fredrik Bajer, Danish lieutenant and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)
Karl Gottlieb Mauch was a German explorer and geographer of Africa. He reported on the archaeological ruins of Great Zimbabwe in 1871 during his search for the biblical land of Oph…
Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (died 1875)
Adam Opel was a German entrepreneur who founded the company Adam Opel AG, then a manufacturer of bicycles and sewing machines.
Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (died 1895)
Count Itagaki Taisuke was a Japanese samurai, politician, and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, which evolved into Japan's first political party, the Liberal Part…
Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese soldier and politician (died 1919)
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.3 mill…
Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas
The Broad Street Riot was a massive brawl that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 11, 1837, between Irish Americans and Yankee firefighters. An estimated 800 people were in…
The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, nicknamed Général Revanche, was a French Army officer and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third…
Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1891)
Jules Theodore Anatole Mallet was a Swiss mechanical engineer, who was the inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. He is …
Anatole Mallet, Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1919)