:''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).
Events of 1830
January - March
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February 3 -
Greece is liberated from the
Ottoman forces as the final result of the
Greek War of Independence. Negotiations for the borders of Greece continued until
1832, under the supervision of
Russia,
France and
Britain, and Greece was internationally recognized as a sovereign state with the
Treaty of Constantinople (1832).
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January 11 -
LaGrange College, now the
University of North Alabama, opened its doors, becoming the first publicly chartered college in
Alabama.
April - June
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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.
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May 13 -
Ecuador separates from
Gran Colombia.
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May 28 - US congress passes the
Indian Removal Act
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June 26 -
William IV succeeds
George IV as King of the
United Kingdom.
July - September

''Liberty Leading the People'' by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution
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July 5 -
France invades
Algeria - see
French period in Algeria.
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July 17 -
Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a
patent (#7454) for a
sewing machine in
France. It chains stitches at 200/minute.
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July 18 -
Uruguay adopts its first
constitution.
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July 20 -
Greece grants citizenship to
Jews.
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July 27 -
France: Beginning of the
July Revolution.
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August 9 -
France:
Louis Philippe becomes King of the
French.
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August 13 -
France:
Duc de Broglie becomes
Prime Minister.
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August 25 - Beginning of the
Belgian revolution.
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August 31 -
Edwin Beard Budding is granted a patent for the invention of
lawnmower.
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September 15 -
Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened (world's first intercity passenger
railway operated solely by
steam locomotives).
October - December
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October 4 - The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of
Belgium, in revolt against the government of the
Netherlands.
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November 2 -
France:
Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister
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November 8 -
Ferdinand II becomes King of the
Two Sicilies
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November 22 - The Whig
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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November 29 - Beginning of a major
Polish insurrection in Warsaw against Russian rule.
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December 5 - World premiere of
Hector Berlioz's most famous work,
Symphonie Fantastique, in Paris.
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December 20 - Recognition of the Independence of
Belgium by the
Great Powers.
Undated
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Alexandrite, a form of the mineral
chrysoberyl, is discovered in
Russia and named after
Czar Alexander II.
Births
January - June
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February 3 -
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1903)
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February 9 -
Abd al-Aziz,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1876)
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March 15 -
Paul von Heyse, German writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1914)
July - December
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July 10 -
Camille Pissarro, French painter (d.
1903)
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August 18 - Emperor
Franz Joseph I of Austria (d.
1916)
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September 2 -
William P. Frye, American politician (d.
1911)
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September 8 -
Frédéric Mistral, French writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1914)
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September 15 -
Porfirio Díaz,
President of Mexico (d.
1915)
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December 10 -
Emily Dickinson, American poet (d.
1886)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Mary Hunt, American activist (d.
1906)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 7 -
Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b.
1769)
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February 23 -
Jan Piotr Norblin, artist (b.
1740)
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March 17 -
Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b.
1764)
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June 4 -
Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman (b.
1795)
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June 26 - King
George IV of the United Kingdom (b.
1762)
July - December
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September 18 -
William Hazlitt, British essayist (b.
1778)
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November 8 - King
Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b.
1777)
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December 1 -
Pope Pius VIII (b.
1761)
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December 8 -
Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b.
1767)
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December 17 -
Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman (b.
1783)
: ''See also .''
See also
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1830 in France
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1830 in the United Kingdom