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In 1830, William IV succeeded his brother George IV as King of the United Kingdom. Upon his death in 1837, his 18-year-old niece, Princess Victoria . [ 11 ] Under Salic law , the Kingdom of Hanover passed to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland , ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which had existed since 1714 .
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), French writer, philosopher and politician; Ethel Cooper (1871–1961), Australian musician and First World War German detainee; Eleanor Coppola (b. 1936), American filmmaker and writer; Rachel Corrie (1979–2003), American activist; William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), English schoolmaster and scholar
A. Andreas Leigh Aabel; Benjamin Vaughan Abbott; Burroughs Abbott; Joseph Henry Abbott; Robert Abbott (New South Wales politician) Abdulaziz; Alfred Ablett
1830 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1830th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 830th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1830, the ...
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The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the ...
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January 7 – Albert Bierstadt, landscape painter (died 1902); January 17 - Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter (died 1901); April 9 – Eadweard Muybridge – photographer (died 1904)