1830

Events in 1830 12

• 1830 – 1876 Abdulaziz (1830-1876) Died 4 June 1876, aged 46 Abdulaziz was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1861 until he was deposed in a coup on May 30, 1876. He was found dead in the Topkapi Palace days later, officially ruled a suicide though many historians suspect murder.
• 1830 – 1903 Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Died 13 November 1903, aged 73 Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter who exhibited in all eight Impressionist exhibitions in Paris. He mentored younger artists including Paul Cu00e9zanne and Georges Seurat. He died in Paris on 13 November 1903.
• 1830 – 1894 Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Died 29 December 1894, aged 64 Rossetti was an English poet best known for Goblin Market and the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. She was a central figure among the Pre-Raphaelite circle through her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She died of cancer in London.
• 1830 – 1886 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Died 15 May 1886, aged 55 Emily Dickinson, the reclusive American poet, died at her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems had been published during her lifetime. Her sister discovered the bulk of her manuscripts after her death, and their posthumous publication established her as one of the most important American poets.
• 1830 First railway in United States Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The first common-carrier railroad in the United States opened its initial 13 miles from Baltimore. In its first year the horse-drawn service famously raced Peter Cooper's locomotive Tom Thumb.
• 1830 – 1916 Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916) Died 21 November 1916, aged 86 Franz Joseph I ruled as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary for 68 years, one of the longest reigns in European history. He died at Schonbrunn Palace in the midst of the war his empire had entered after the assassination of his nephew Franz Ferdinand.
• 1830 – 1893 James G. Blaine (1830-1893) Died 27 January 1893, aged 62 American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and was the Republican presidential nominee in 1884. He was one of the most prominent political figures of the Gilded Age.
• 1830 – 1872 Kamehameha V (1830-1872) Died 11 December 1872, aged 42 Kamehameha V was King of Hawaii from 1863 until his death, presiding over a period of conservative reforms and a new constitution that strengthened the monarchy. His death without a named heir ended the direct Kamehameha line of succession.
• 1830 – 1905 Louise Michel (1830-1905) Died 9 January 1905, aged 74 French anarchist and teacher Louise Michel was a leading figure in the Paris Commune of 1871, for which she was deported to New Caledonia. After returning to France she remained a prominent anarchist agitator and writer for the rest of her life. She is remembered as one of the most significant figures of French anarchism.
• 1830 – 1878 Okubo Toshimichi (1830-1878) Died 14 May 1878, aged 47 A Japanese statesman regarded as one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, he was a principal architect of Japan's modernization as a government minister. He was assassinated in Tokyo by disaffected samurai opposed to his reforms. His death marked the end of the Restoration's founding generation of leaders.
• 1830 – 1886 Christina Rossetti English poet Rossetti wrote devotional and lyrical poetry exploring love, faith, and mortality.
• 1830 Belgian independence declared Separation from the Netherlands Belgium declared independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands after the Belgian Revolution.