1830

January 7

• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company begins carrying revenue traffic - first US Railroad Station (Baltimore Maryland). [1]
• Charlotte J T infant of Portugal's ex, dies at age 53. [1]

January 8

• Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members. [1]

January 13

• Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves. [1]

January 14

• Johann G Repsold German instrument maker, dies at age 59. [1]

January 17

• W Waiblinger writer, dies. [1]

January 19

• Wenzel Thomas Matiegka composer, dies at age 56. [1]

January 20

• Michal Bogdanowicz composer, dies at age 50. [1]

January 21

• Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported. [1]

January 28

• The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris). [1]

February 7

• Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal Portuguese composer, dies at age 67. [1]

February 18

• Charles G G Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at age 67. [1]

February 25

• Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris. [1]

March 4

• V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres in Venice. [1]

March 16

• London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms. [1]
• New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded). [1]

April 1

• Carl Borromaus Neuner composer, dies at age 51. [1]

April 6

• Joseph Smith and five others organize Mormon church in Seneca County, New York. [1]

April 11

• Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini. [1]

April 18

• Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia composer, dies at age 62. [1]

April 22

• Knud L Rahbek Danish literary/historian, dies at age 69. [1]

May 3

• First regular steam train passenger service starts. [1]

May 13

• Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president. [1]

May 16

• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier mathematician, dies. [1]

May 18

• Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower - Saturdays are destroyed forever. [1]

May 20

• First railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American). [1]

May 24

• "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written. [1]
• First passenger rail service in US (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland). [1]

May 28

• US Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie. [1]

June 26

• William IV becomes new King of England. [309.83]

July 5

• France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest. [1]

July 28

• Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe. [1]

August 4

• Plans for the city of Chicago laid out. [1]

August 25

• Belgium revolts against Netherlands. [1]

September 9

• Charles Durant, first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. [1]

September 15

• First to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England). [1]

September 18

• A horse beats the first US-made locomotive in a race near Baltimore, Maryland. [1] [5]

September 20

• First National Black convention meets (Philadelphia). [1]

October 4

• Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands. [1]

November 13

• Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides". [1]

December 5

• Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique fantastique" premieres in Paris. [1]

December 8

• H Benjamin Constant French politician/writer, dies at age 63. [1]

December 17

• Death of Simón Bolívar, President of Colombia, liberator of Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, at age 47 in Colombia. [1] [246.42]

December 20

• England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium. [1]

December 25

• Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic" premieres. [1]

December 26

• Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena" premieres in Milan. [1]

December 28

• Adrien-Joseph van Helmont composer, dies at age 83. [1]

1831

January 1

• William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of abolitionist journal. [1]

January 2

• Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston. [1]

January 3

• First US building and loan association organized, Frankford Pennsylvania. [1]

January 4

• Nikola P Neofit Rilski Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at age 37. [1]

January 6

• Rodolphe Kreutzer French composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at age 64. [1]

January 8

• Franz Vinzenz Krommer composer, dies at age 71. [1]

January 15

• First US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes first run; Mr and Mrs Pierson of Charleston South Carolina make first US railroad honeymoon trip. [1]

January 21

• Achim versus Arnim writer, dies at age 49. [1]

January 22

• Charles Darwin takes his Bachelor of Arts exam. [1]

February 5

• Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30. [1]
• John CJ van Speijk commits suicide at age 29. [1]

February 7

• Belgium adopts its Constitution. [1]

February 14

• Vincente Guerrero Mexican revolutionary hero, dies. [1]

February 15

• Henry Maudslay inventor (metal lathe), dies. [1]

February 19

• First practical US coal-burning locomotive makes first trial run, Pennsylvania. [1]

February 20

• Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow. [1]

March 2

• John Frazee becomes first US sculptor to receive a federal commission. [1]

March 4

• Georg Michael Telemann composer, dies at age 82. [1]

March 6

• Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy. [1]
• Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" premieres in Milan. [1]

March 9

• Friedrich M Klinger German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at age 79. [1]

March 12

• Johann Franz Volkert composer, dies at age 64. [1]

March 19

• First US bank robbery (City Bank, New York/$245,000). [1]

March 26

• Richard Allen AME Church Bishop, dies at age 71. [1]

March 31

• Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends. [1]
• Québec and Montréal incorporated. [1]

April 2

• Charles Felix blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at age 74. [1]

April 7

• Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil. [1]

April 9

• Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain. [1]

April 13

• Ferdinand Kauer composer, dies at age 80. [1]

May 1

• Antonius van Alphen apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at age 82. [1]

May 5

• Friedrich Ludwig Seidel composer, dies at age 65. [1]

May 13

• Christian G Körner German lawyer, dies at age 74. [1]

May 24

• Benjamin Carr composer, dies at age 62. [1]

May 26

• Georg Hermes German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies. [1]

June 6

• Second national black convention (Philadelphia). [1]

July 4

• James Monroe, 5th US president, dies. [1] [248.43]

July 21

• Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king. [1]

August 1

• A new London Bridge opens in England. [1] [5]

August 9

• First US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York). [1]

August 10

• Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery. [1]

August 13

• Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia. [1]

August 21

• Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia). [1]

August 24

• Charles Darwin is asked to travel on the HMS Beagle. [5]

October 21

• Nat Turner 19 associates, hung. [1]

November 11

• Nat Turner former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in Virginia. [1]

November 22

• The opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris). [1]

December 1

• Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather. [1]

December 2

• Traugott Maximilian Eberwein composer, dies at age 56. [1]

December 5

• Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives. [1]

December 8

• James Hoban architect who designed the White House, dies. [1]

December 10

• "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet). [1]

December 11

• John George Schetky composer, dies at age 55. [1]

December 15

• Paul R Cantzlaar Governor of Saba/Curaçao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at age 60. [1]

December 18

• Willem Bilderdijk Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at age 75. [1]

December 25

• Louisiana and Arkansas are first states to observe Christmas as holiday. [1]

December 26

• Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma" premieres in Milan. [1]

December 27

• Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle. [1]

1832

January 4

• Insurrection of Trinidad negroes. [1]

January 6

• New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston). [1]

January 16

• Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde. [1]

January 17

• Johannes van den Bosch appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies. [1]

February 1

• Ecco Epkema Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at age 71. [1]

February 3

• George Crabbe English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at age 77. [1]

February 6

• First appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland. [1]
• US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy. [1]

February 10

• Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini composer, dies at age 84. [1]

February 12

• Ecuador annexes Galápagos Islands. [1]

February 13

• First appearance of cholera at London. [1]

February 15

• Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck composer, dies at age 85. [1]

February 16

• HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1 degrees N, 29 degrees W). [1]

February 20

• Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean. [1]

February 22

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poet, Weimar, Germany. [1]

February 26

• Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I. [1]

February 29

• Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil. [1]

March 10

• Muzio Clementi Italian composer, dies at age 79. [1]

March 12

• Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau German/Danish opera composer, dies at age 45. [1]

March 22

• J W Goethe writer, dies at age 82. [1]

March 23

• British Parliament passes reform bill. [1]
• Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer, dies at age 41. [1]

March 24

• Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio. [1]

April 1

• Robert the Hermit US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies. [1]

April 4

• Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro. [1]

April 8

• Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro. [1]

May 4

• Jan van Speyck Dutch Admiral, buried in New Church. [1]

May 7

• Greece becomes independent republic. [1]
• Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece. [1]

May 12

• Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'Elisir D'amore" premieres in Milan. [1]

May 13

• Georges Cuvier French zoologist (La Règne Animal), dies at age 62. [1]

May 14

• Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" premieres. [1]
• John van Speijk Dutch heroic sailor, buried. [1]

May 15

• Carl Friedrich Zelter composer, dies at age 73. [1]

May 18

• Bonafacio Asioli composer, dies at age 62. [1]

May 21

• First Democratic National Convention (Baltimore). [1]

May 26

• François-Louis Perne composer, dies at age 59. [1]

May 30

• Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31). [1]

May 31

• Évariste Galois French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at age 20. [1]

June 4

• Third national black convention meets (Philadelphia). [1]

June 16

• Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois. [1]

July 4

• "America" first sung publicly. [1]

July 10

• President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter second Bank of US. [1]

July 13

• Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River. [1] [5]

July 25

• First railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies. [1]

August 2

• 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War. [1]
• Black Hawk defeated (Iowa). [1]
• Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc. [1]

August 15

• Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism. [1]

November 14

• First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in New York City; fare 12c rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts. [1]

November 23

• French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium. [1]

November 24

• South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification. [1]

November 26

• First streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12-cent fare). [1]

December 4

• French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp. [1]

December 5

• Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US, Martin Van Buren Vice-President. [1]

December 17

• HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire. [1]

December 18

• Charles Darwin visits Vurland. [1]

December 22

• HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands. [1]
• Ishmail Spicer composer, dies at age 72. [1]

December 23

• Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender. [1]

December 24

• First US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah Georgia. [1]
• HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver. [1]

December 25

• Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Saint Martin at Cape Receiver. [1]

December 28

• John Calhoun becomes first Vice-President to resign (differences with President Jackson). [1]

December 30

• Colonel Abijah Hammond owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies. [1]

1833

January 1

• British government demands Falkland islands. [1]
• Curaçao census 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves. [1]

January 3

• Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic. [1]

January 7

• Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba composer, dies at age 55. [1]

January 8

• Boston Academy of Music, first US music school, established. [1]

January 10

• Adrien Marie Legendre dies. [1]
• Antoinio da Silva Leite composer, dies at age 73. [1]
• Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin. [1]

January 12

• Marie-Antoine Carème author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at age 48. [1]

January 15

• HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego. [1]

January 17

• James Ball Antyne Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about age 60. [1]
• William Rush Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies. [1]

January 19

• Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland. [1]
• Louis-J-Ferdinand Hérold French composer (Pré aux clercs), dies at age 41. [1]

January 23

• Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation. [1]

January 26

• Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan. [1]

February 18

• Georg Johann Schinn composer, dies at age 64. [1]
• Ignac Ruzitska composer, dies at age 55. [1]

March 7

• Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German author, dies at age 61. [1]

March 11

• Fridolin Weber composer, dies at age 71. [1]

March 16

• Susan Hayhurst becomes first US woman grad of a pharmacy college. [1]

March 17

• Phoenix Society forms (New York). [1]

March 20

• US and Siam conclude commercial treaty. [1]

April 7

• Antoni Henryk Radziwill Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at age 57. [1]

April 9

• First tax-supported public library (Peterborough New Hampshire). [1]

April 22

• First scheduled commercial bus service by London & Paddington Steam Carriage Company, between Paddington and London, England. [55.29]
• Richard Trevithick inventor (steam locomotive), dies at age 62. [1]

April 24

• Patent granted for first soda fountain to Jacob Evert and George Dulty. [1]

May 2

• Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs. [1]

May 6

• John Deere makes first steel plow. [1]

May 10

• François Andrieux French writer/politician, dies at age 74. [1]

May 11

• "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215. [1]

May 14

• Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer, dies at age 88. [1]

May 15

• Edmund Kean English actor (Shylock), dies at age 46. [1]

May 16

• Antonio López de Santa Anna becomes President of Mexico. [118.61]

May 28

• Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner composer, dies at age 74. [1]

May 29

• William Marshall composer, dies at age 84. [1]

May 30

• Josef Slavik composer, dies at age 27. [1]

June 3

• 4th national black convention meets (Philadelphia). [1]
• Antonio López de Santa Anna resigns as President of Mexico. [118.61]

June 5

• Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage. [1]

June 6

• U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. [5]

June 18

• Antonio López de Santa Anna becomes President (2nd time) of Mexico. [118.61]

June 27

• Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy. [1]

July 5

• Antonio López de Santa Anna resigns (2nd time) as President of Mexico. [118.61]

August 10

• Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200. [1]

August 23

• Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed. [1]

September 3

• New York Sun begins publishing (first daily newspaper). [1]

September 4

• First newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-New York Sun). [1]

September 28

• Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at age 88. [1]

October 2

• New York Anti-Slavery Society organized. [1]

October 27

• Antonio López de Santa Anna becomes President (3rd time) of Mexico. [118.61]

October 29

• First US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded. [1]

December 3

• Oberlin College in Ohio, first truly coeducational college opens. [1]

December 4

• American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia. [1]

December 6

• HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata. [1]

December 10

• Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer, dies at age 79. [1]

December 13

• HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonie. [1]

December 15

• Antonio López de Santa Anna resigns (3rd time) as President of Mexico. [118.61]

December 16

• Friedrich August Kanne composer, dies at age 55. [1]

December 17

• Kaspar Hauser German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at age 21. [1]

December 25

• Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia. [1]

1834

January 1

• German Customs Union comes into force. [1] [37]

January 5

• Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell. [1]

January 9

• HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia. [1]

January 29

• President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute. [1]

February 4

• Amelie Julia Candielle composer, dies at age 66. [1]

February 12

• Friedrich Schleiermacher German theologist/philosopher, dies at age 65. [1]

February 16

• Lionel Lukin life boat pioneer, dies. [1]

February 18

• First US labor newspaper, "The Man", published, New York City, New York. [1]

February 26

• First US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified. [1]

March 6

• Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its first mayor. [1]

March 12

• Karl W Feuerbach mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at age 33. [1]

March 16

• HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands. [1]

March 18

• First railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 metre long). [1]

March 28

• US Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US. [1]

April 13

• HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia. [1]

April 18

• Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia. [1]

April 24

• Antonio López de Santa Anna becomes President (4th time) of Mexico. [118.61]

April 29

• Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia. [1]

May 1

• British colonies abolish slavery. [241.9]
• Belgian parliament accept railway laws. [1]

May 4

• Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean. [1]

May 5

• Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz. [1]

May 8

• Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle. [1]
• Prussia, Austria and Russia sign classified accord about Belgium. [1]

May 20

• Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier nobleman, dies. [1]
• Marquis de Lafayette French general, dies. [1]

May 23

• Charles Wesley composer, dies at age 76. [1]

May 26

• Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates. [1]

June 2

• 5th national black convention meet (New York City). [1]

June 14

• Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine. [1]
• Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont. [1]

June 21

• Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine. [1]

June 30

• US Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). [1]

July 5

• Provisional government established in Oregon Country. [1]

August 1

• Slavery abolished in British empire. [1]

August 18

• Mt Vesuvius erupts. [1]

November 1

• First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game). [1]

November 14

• William Thomson enters Glasgow University at age 10 years 4 months. [1]

November 25

• Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents. [1]

December 3

• First US dental society organized (New York). [1]

December 6

• Jonas Daniel Meyer Dutch lawyer, dies at age 54. [1]

December 7

• Ludwig Schuncke composer, dies at age 23. [1]

December 23

• Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs. [1]

December 25

• Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile. [1]