Explore 418 historical events from 1830–1839.
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 183…
François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (born 1774)
Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries f…
Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (born 1785)
Bernhard Henrik Crusell was a Finland-Swedish clarinetist, composer and translator, "the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed,…
Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (born 1775)
Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian and American librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celeb…
Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (born 1749)
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt…
Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (born 1781)
Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current in Hungary regarding the politics involving the Austrian …
Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (born 1790)
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
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
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database has different names in different…
A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
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)
The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846. The line built by the company, which opened in 1837, linke…
Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
Electrical telegraphy is point-to-point distance communicating via sending electric signals over wire, a system primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was th…
The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and…
The West India Regiments (WIR) were a group of line infantry regiments of the British Army raised and normally stationed in the British West Indies between 1795 and 1927. In 1888 t…
Three African soldiers in the 1st West India Regiment – Daaga, Edward Coffin and Maurice Ogston – were executed for…