7 January 1830Death of Thomas LawrenceThomas Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence dies while serving as President of the Royal Academy.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1830, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Thomas Lawrence dies while serving as President of the Royal Academy.
Birth of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
London Protocol recognizes Greece as an independent state
Eadweard Muybridge is born and later pioneers photographic studies of motion.
John Gordon Sprigg is born in Ipswich, England.
Brunel is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his scientific and engineering promise.
Accedes to the throne on the death of his brother George IV.
George IV dies at Windsor Castle after prolonged illness.
Becomes heir presumptive after her uncle William IV succeeds George IV.
Succeeds his brother George IV as King of Great Britain.
George IV is buried in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Receives a patent for a machine designed to cut grass evenly.
Is fatally injured by Stephenson's Rocket during the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opening.
Assists engineering work on the world's first inter-city passenger railway.
Opens the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with a public procession.
Attends the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
William Hazlitt dies in London after a career as an essayist and critic.
Declares strong opposition to parliamentary reform while speaking in the House of Lords.
Wellington opens the London Conference to discuss Belgian independence
Loses a parliamentary vote that brings his ministry to an end.
Resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain
Becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer in Earl Grey's Whig government.
Joins Lord Grey's government as Colonial Secretary.
Appointed Foreign Secretary in Lord Grey's government.
Appointed Home Secretary in Lord Grey's government.
Joins Earl Grey's cabinet as Lord Privy Seal.
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain and forms a Whig government.
Leaves the Home Office when Wellington's Tory government is replaced.
Leaves office as Lord Chancellor after the fall of Wellington's ministry.
Invites Earl Grey to form a government after Wellington's resignation.
Uses magistrates, troops and prosecutions as agricultural disturbances spread.
Informs Belgium that it has no claim to Luxemburg. Informs Belgium any threat to Luxemburg will justify intervention of the German States
Christina Rossetti is born in London and later becomes a major Victorian poet.
The Conference formally agrees to the independence of Belgium from Holland
Continues government action against Swing rioters after taking office as Home Secretary.
Samuel Enderby & Sons appoint Biscoe master of the brig Tula and leader of an expedition to seek new sealing grounds in the Southern Ocean, accompanied by the cutter Lively
Founds the Birmingham Political Union to campaign for parliamentary reform.
Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in Lord Grey's Whig government.
Acts as judge during the Clifton Suspension Bridge design competition.
Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Grey's government.
Builds the Northumbrian, used on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830.
Supports parliamentary reform giving representation to rapidly growing industrial towns.
Publishes the novel Paul Clifford.
Appointed Paymaster General in Lord Grey's government.
Builds the Planet, an influential early locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Publishes the collection Poems, Chiefly Lyrical.
Appointed President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint in Lord Grey's government.
Appointed President of the Board of Trade
Publication of "Principles of Geology"
Is promoted to lieutenant colonel during his early cavalry career.
Is promoted to major during his early cavalry career.
Continues refining locomotive operation and railway practice during the first year of inter-city service.
Publishes Reflections on the Decline of Science in England.
Grey supports reform plans giving representation to fast-growing industrial towns including Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford and Leeds.
Appointed President of the Royal Academy
Publication of "Rural Rides". Publication of a collection of essays
Submits revised designs in the second competition for a bridge across the Avon Gorge.
Brunel continues promoting his Avon Gorge design after Thomas Telford rejects the first competition entries and proposes his own bridge.
Publishes the historical novel The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
Publishes the naval novel The King's Own.
The London square is named to commemorate Trafalgar.
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