1830 in History

Abdicates after the July Revolution destroys his authority.

Accedes to the throne on the death of his brother George IV.

Is assassinated while travelling through the mountains of southern Gran Colombia.

Oversees opening of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line to Ellicott's Mills.

Presides over the National Congress convened to establish Belgium's political system.

Orders the Dutch citadel to bombard Antwerp after revolutionary forces take control of the city.

Provides major financial support for publication of the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

Leads Dutch troops into Brussels in an attempt to suppress the revolution.

George IV is buried in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Takes Algiers after the capitulation of Hussein Dey.

Arrests Prince Diponegoro, bringing the main phase of the Java War to an end.

Is arrested during negotiations with Dutch commander Hendrik Merkus de Kock.

Becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer in Earl Grey's Whig government.

Accepts the revised constitutional charter establishing the July Monarchy.

Participates in formally organizing the Church of Christ.

Organizes the Church of Christ, later known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joins Lord Grey's government as Colonial Secretary.

Informs Belgium that it has no claim to Luxemburg. Informs Belgium any threat to Luxemburg will justify intervention of the German States

The Conference formally agrees to the independence of Belgium from Holland

Wellington opens the London Conference to discuss Belgian independence

Leads the new Venezuelan government as the Congress of Valencia assembles to establish a separate republic.

Participates in the constitutional settlement as Uruguay adopts its first constitution

Leads Venezuela when the Constitution of 1830 establishes the institutions of the independent republic.

Participates as the Provisional Government declares Belgium independent.

Helps lead the provisional authorities when Belgian independence is declared.

Leaves Bogota intending to travel into exile after resigning from political leadership.

Is appointed dictator in an attempt to control the Polish uprising.

Is elected to the House of Representatives after serving as president.

Presides when the National Congress excludes the House of Orange-Nassau from the Belgian throne.

Leaves France for exile after losing the throne in the July Revolution.

His ministry collapses as the July Revolution destroys royal authority in Paris.

Participates in the first conference of the new church.

Presides over the first conference of the newly organized church.

Becomes the first President of the newly independent Republic of Venezuela.

Appointed Foreign Secretary in Lord Grey's government.

Invites Earl Grey to form a government after Wellington's resignation.

Loses a parliamentary vote that brings his ministry to an end.

Becomes heir presumptive after her uncle William IV succeeds George IV.

Performs Dona Sol in the premiere of Victor Hugo's Hernani.

Hernani premieres at the Comedie-Francaise and becomes a landmark of French Romantic drama.

Appointed Home Secretary in Lord Grey's government.

Signs the Indian Removal Act authorizing removal treaties with Indigenous nations east of the Mississippi.

Responds at the Jefferson Day dinner with a toast emphasizing liberty and states' rights.

Declares that the federal Union must be preserved during the Jefferson Day dinner.

Issues the July Ordinances restricting the press, dissolving the Chamber and narrowing the electorate.

His government issues the July Ordinances restricting the press and electorate, provoking the July Revolution.

Faces armed revolt in Paris after publication of the July Ordinances.

Becomes King of the French after the July Revolution establishes the July Monarchy.

Lands the French expeditionary army west of Algiers.

Receives a patent for a machine designed to cut grass evenly.

Accepts appointment as lieutenant-general while the Bourbon government collapses.

Assists engineering work on the world's first inter-city passenger railway.

Opens the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with a public procession.

London Protocol recognizes Greece as an independent state

Joins Earl Grey's cabinet as Lord Privy Seal.

Is promoted to Marshal of France after the conquest of Algiers.

Vetoes federal funding for the Maysville Road project in Kentucky.

Orders military efforts to restore royal authority in the rebellious southern provinces.

Joins a missionary journey westward after converting to the new church.

Resumes command of the Paris National Guard during the July Revolution.

Faces the outbreak of the Polish November Uprising against Russian rule.

Leads cadets in the opening attack of the Polish November Uprising.

Declares strong opposition to parliamentary reform while speaking in the House of Lords.

Issues the Pragmatic Sanction allowing his daughter to inherit the Spanish crown.

Signs the Preemption Act allowing qualifying settlers to buy public land at the minimum federal price.

Assumes provisional leadership after Francisco Ruiz-Tagle leaves office.

Becomes provisional president during the conservative political ascendancy.

Appointed first constitutional President of Ecuador after separation from Gran Colombia

Becomes the first constitutional President of Uruguay

Becomes head of government during the early July Monarchy.

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain and forms a Whig government.

Joins the Belgian Provisional Government formed during the revolution.

Serves in the Belgian Provisional Government created during the revolt.

Joins the Belgian Provisional Government after the fighting in Brussels.

Serves in the Belgian Provisional Government formed after Dutch troops withdraw.

Becomes a leading member of the provisional government formed during the uprising.

Joins the provisional government created during the November Uprising.

Attends the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

The Preemption Act offers settlers cultivating land $1.25 an acre

The Indian Removal Act removes Indians to lands west of the Mississippi

Renounces his rights to the throne shortly after Charles X abdicates.

Leaves the Home Office when Wellington's Tory government is replaced.

Leaves office as Lord Chancellor after the fall of Wellington's ministry.

Resigns political authority in Gran Colombia amid the federation's collapse.

Resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain

Brunel is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his scientific and engineering promise.

Delivers his famous Second Reply to Hayne in the United States Senate.

Leads Ecuador as it separates from Gran Colombia and establishes a new state.

Succeeds his brother George IV as King of Great Britain.

Succeeds his father Francis I as King of the Two Sicilies.

Publicly supports Louis Philippe as a constitutional alternative to Charles X.

Capitulates to the French expedition after the fall of Algiers.

Continues government action against Swing rioters after taking office as Home Secretary.

Uses magistrates, troops and prosecutions as agricultural disturbances spread.

Demonstrates the Tom Thumb steam locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

The United States signs a commerce and navigation treaty with the Ottoman Empire.

Signs the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek as a United States commissioner.

Signs the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek for the United States.

Signs the removal treaty on behalf of a section of the Choctaw leadership.

Signs the treaty that cedes Choctaw lands east of the Mississippi.

The United States concludes a treaty involving land cessions in the upper Mississippi region.

Is convicted for his role in the July Ordinances and sentenced to imprisonment.

Serves as the first Vice President of the new Republic of Ecuador.

Presides as the National Congress confirms Belgium's independence.

Withdraws Dutch forces after several days of heavy street fighting.

Withdraws Russian forces from Warsaw after the uprising begins.

Abdulaziz is born in Constantinople and later rules the Ottoman Empire from 1861 to 1876.

Christina Rossetti is born in London and later becomes a major Victorian poet.

Eadweard Muybridge is born and later pioneers photographic studies of motion.

Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Franz Joseph I is born at Schoenbrunn Palace, eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl and Princess Sophie.

Guido Gezelle is born in Bruges and later becomes a major Flemish poet.

Hector Malot is born in Normandy and later becomes a French novelist.

Isabella II is born in Madrid, daughter of Ferdinand VII and Maria Christina.

John Gordon Sprigg is born in Ipswich, England.

Birth of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

David Walker dies after becoming a prominent advocate of immediate abolition.

Dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son Ferdinand II.

George IV dies at Windsor Castle after prolonged illness.

Joseph Fourier dies after major contributions to mathematical physics and analysis.

Simon Bolivar dies at Santa Marta after resigning from political leadership in Gran Colombia.

Thomas Lawrence dies while serving as President of the Royal Academy.

William Hazlitt dies in London after a career as an essayist and critic.

Is fatally injured by Stephenson's Rocket during the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opening.

Is defeated by conservative forces at the Battle of Lircay.

Heads the provisional government when conservative forces win the Battle of Lircay and end the civil war.

Defeats liberal forces at Lircay and secures conservative political ascendancy.

Defeats forces defending Algiers during the French invasion.