1830

This page is about the year 1830. For the board game, see 1830.

1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Events

February 3 - Greece gains full independence from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. Negotiations for the borders between the two states continue until 1832, under the supervision of Russia, France and Britain.
April 6 - Founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York by Joseph Smith, Jr. and five others.
May 13 - Ecuador separates from Gran Colombia.
May 28 - US congress passes the Indian Removal Act
June 26 - William IV succeeds George IV as King of the United Kingdom.
July 5 - France invades Algeria - see French period in Algeria.
July 17 - Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine in France. It chains stitches at 200/minute.
July 18 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
July 20 - Greece grants citizenship to Jews.
July 27 - France: Begin of the July Revolution.
August 9 - France: Louis Philippe becomes King of the French.
August 13 - France: Duc de Broglie becomes Prime Minister.
August 25 - Beginning of the Belgian revolution.
August 31 - Edwin Beard Budding is granted a patent for the invention of lawnmower.
September 15 - Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened (world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives).
October 4 - The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of Belgium, in revolt against the government of the Netherlands.
November 2 - France: Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister
November 8 - Ferdinand II becomes King of the Two Sicilies
November 22 - The Whig Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
November 29 - Beginning of a major Polish insurrection in Warsaw against Russian rule.
December 5 - World premiere of Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie Phantastique, in Paris.
December 20 - Recognition of the Independence of Belgium by the Great Powers.

Births

February 3 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (d. 1903)
February 9 - Abd al-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
March 15 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
August 18 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
September 2 - William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
September 8 - Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
September 15 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
November 15 - Harriet the Galapagos tortoise; as of 2006 the world's oldest living animal. (d. 2006)
December 10 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)

Month/day unknown

Mary Hunt, American activist (d. 1906)

Deaths

January 7 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
March 17 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
June 4 - Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1795)
June 26 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
September 18 - William Hazlitt, British essayist (b. 1778)
November 8 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
December 1 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
December 8 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767)
December 17 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1783)

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