Explore 418 historical events from 1830–1839.
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)
Józef Wieniawski was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Lublin, the younger brother of the famous violinist Henryk Wieniawski. After Franz Liszt, he …
Józef Wieniawski, Polish pianist and composer (died 1912)
James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gu…
Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer (died 1876)
George Coppinger Ashlin was an Irish architect, particularly noted for his work on churches and cathedrals, and who became President of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ire…
George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral (died 1921)
Alois Hitler was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service and the father of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany.
Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903)
Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, was an English writer, whose several novels were appreciated in their time and made her a central figur…
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (died 1919)
Antonio Pastor was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late-nineteenth centur…
Tony Pastor, American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner (died 1908)
Michele Rua was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Rua was a student under Don Bosco and was also the latter's first collaborator in the…
Michele Rua, Italian Catholic priest and saint (died 1910)
Ernst Heinrich Gustav Laas was a German gymnasium teacher, philosopher of positivism and education, and chair of philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Strasbourg. The insigh…
Ernst Laas, German philosopher and academic (died 1885)
Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have c…
Paul Morphy, American chess player (died 1884)
Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a major designer…
Ernst Ziller, German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (died 1923)
Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (Konkani: [raːmkɾuʂɳ ɡopaːɭ bʱaːɳɖaːɾkɑɾ], Marathi: [raːməkɾuʂɳə ɡoːpaːɭ bʱaːɳɖaːɾkəɾ] was an Indian scholar, orientalist, and social reformer.
R. G. Bhandarkar, Indian orientalist and scholar (died 1925)
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, was a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served in the federal Cabinet and also as the sixth premier of Quebec.
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th Secretary of State for Canada (died 1886)
Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary who is, today, a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised…
Vasil Levski, Bulgarian priest and activist (died 1873)
William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War.
William Quantrill, American captain (died 1865)
Julien Reverchon was a French botanist and naturalist.
Julien Reverchon, French botanist (died 1905)
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic (died 1894)
Clément François Théodore Dubois was a French Romantic composer, organist and pedagogue.
Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (died 1924)
Francis, Duke of Teck, known as Count Francis von Hohenstein until 1863, was an Austrian-born nobleman who married into the British royal family. His wife, Princess Mary Adelaide o…
Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (died 1900)
Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov was a Russian general and statesman.
Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (born 1770)
Joseph Grimaldi was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era. In the early 19th century, he expanded the role of Cl…
Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer (born 1779)
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th ce…
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798)
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…
William IV of the United Kingdom (born 1765)