1830

This article is about the year 1830. For the board game, see 1830 (board game). For the computer game, see 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1827 1828 1829 – 1830 – 1831 1832 1833

1830 in topic:

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Works category

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1830 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1830 MDCCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	2583
Armenian calendar	1279 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6580
Bengali calendar	1237
Berber calendar	2780
British Regnal year	10 Geo. 4 – 1 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar	2374
Burmese calendar	1192
Byzantine calendar	7338–7339
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4526 or 4466     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4527 or 4467
Coptic calendar	1546–1547
Discordian calendar	2996
Ethiopian calendar	1822–1823
Hebrew calendar	5590–5591
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1886–1887
- Shaka Samvat	1752–1753
- Kali Yuga	4931–4932
Holocene calendar	11830
Igbo calendar	830–831
Iranian calendar	1208–1209
Islamic calendar	1245–1246
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 13 / Tenpō 1 (天保元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4163
Minguo calendar	82 before ROC 民前82年
Thai solar calendar	2372–2373

1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1830th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 830th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1830s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1830 is 12 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy.

Events

January–March

• January 11 – LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) began operation, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.
• January 12–January 27 – Webster–Hayne debate: Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina debates the question of states' rights vs. federal authority with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts in the United States Congress.
• February 3 – The London Protocol establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution (July 27).

• March 12 – Craig vs. Missouri: The United States Supreme Court rules that state loan certificates are unconstitutional because they were bills of credit emitted by a state in violation of Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution.
• March 26 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

April–June

• April 6 – Joseph Smith and five others organize the Church of Christ (later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), the first formally organized church of the Latter Day Saint movement, in northwestern New York.
• May 13 – Ecuador separates from Gran Colombia.
• May 28 – The United States Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the President to negotiate with Native Americans in the United States for their removal from their ancestral homelands.
• June 26 – William IV succeeds his brother George IV as King of the United Kingdom.

July–September

• July 5 – France invades Algeria (see French Algeria).
• July 13 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
• 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: The July Revolution begins (see also 1830 in France).
• August 9 – France: Louis Philippe becomes King of the French.
• August 13 – France: Duc de Broglie becomes Prime Minister.
• August 25 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
• August 31 – Edwin Beard Budding is granted a patent for the invention of the lawn mower.
• September 15 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens, the world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives.
• September 27 – The Belgian Revolution ends by liberating Brussels from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

October–December

• October 4 – The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• October – Start of the Regeneration in Switzerland: more liberal constitutions adopted in most cantons.
• 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 – The Polish insurrection begins in Warsaw against Russian rule.
• December 5 – Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie fantastique, has its world premiere in Paris.
• December 20 – The independence of Belgium is recognized by the Great Powers.

Date unknown

• The Java War ends.
• 10,000 chests of opium are sold in China.
• Austins of Derry established in Northern Ireland. As of 2010 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.

Births

January–June

• January 21 – Liu Kunyi, Chinese general (d. 1902)
• January 23 – Gaston Alexandre Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet, French general (d. 1909)
• February 3 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
• February 9 – Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
• March 15 – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
• March 30 – Mihály Zsupánek Slovene writer, poet and soldier in Hungary (d. 1898? 1905)
• May 5 – John Batterson Stetson, American hat maker (d. 1906)
• May 10 – François-Marie Raoult, French chemist (d. 1901)
• May 14 – Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (d. 1905)
• June 5 – Carmine Crocco, Italian brigand (d. 1905)

June–December

Camille Pissarro

Franz Joseph I of Austria

• July 10 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
• July 20 – Fanny Janauschek, Czech-born actress (d. 1904)
• July 25 – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (d. 1926)
• 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 12 – William Sprague IV, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
• September 15 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
• September 20 – Edward James Reed, British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate (d. 1906)
• September 22 – Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, prominent American socialite (d. 1908)
• December 10 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
• December 17 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1870)
• December 21 – Bartolomé Masó, Cuban patriot (d. 1907)

Date unknown

• Mary Hunt, American activist (d. 1906)

Deaths

January–June

• January 7 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
• January 7 – John Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
• January 25 – Benito de Soto, Galician pirate (b. 1805)
• February 2 – Manoel da Costa Ataíde, Brazilian artist (b. date unknown)
• February 23 – Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine (Jan Piotr Norblin), French-born Polish artist (b. 1740)
• March 7 – Jacques Villeré, first Creole governor of Louisiana (b. 1761)
• March 17 – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
• June 1 – Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan), believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body (b. 1781).
• June 4 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1795)
• June 26 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• June 28 – David Walker, Abolitionist (b. 1796)

July–December

• September 18 – William Hazlitt, British essayist (b. 1778)
• October 4 – Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian military leader (b. 1759)
• October 5 – Dinicu Golescu, Romanian writer (b. 1777)
• November 8 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• November 18 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (b. 1748)
• November 30 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• December 8 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767)
• December 17 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1783)

Date unknown

• Aleamotuʻa, King of Tonga (b. 1738)
• Petar I Petrović Njegoš, ruler of Montenegro (b. 1747)
• Temerl Bergson, Polish Jewish businesswoman and philanthropist