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- For the game, see: 1830 (board game).
Year 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
1830 is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the July Revolution, the Belgian Revolution and the November Uprising taking place in respectively France, the Low Countries and Poland.
Events of 1830
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 6 – Joseph Smith and 5 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.
- June 26 – William IV succeeds his brother George IV as King of the United Kingdom.
- July 5 – France invades Algeria (see French period in Algeria).
- July 13 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal 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 lawnmower.
- September 15 – 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 4 – The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom 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 – The Polish insurrection begins in Warsaw against Russian rule.
- December 5 – Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie Fantastique, makes its world premiere in Paris.
- December 20 – The independence of Belgium is recognized by the Great Powers.
Undated
- The Java War ends.
- 10,000 chests of opium are sold in China.
Births
- February 3 – Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
- February 9 – Abd al-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
- March 15 – Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
- May 5 – John Batterson Stetson, hat maker (d. 1906)
- July 10 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
- 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 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)
- date unknown – Mary Hunt, American activist (d. 1906)
Deaths
January–June
July–December