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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 ...
The 1830s (pronounced "eighteen-thirties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1830, and ended on December 31, 1839. In this decade, the world saw a rapid rise of imperialism and colonialism, particularly in Asia and Africa. Britain saw a surge of power and world dominance, as Queen Victoria took to the throne in 1837.
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 ...
1830 Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), painter; Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906), painter; Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), photographer; Granville Perkins (1830–1895), painter, engraver; John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), sculptor; 1831 Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898), political portrait painter; Hermann Ottomar Herzog ...
Hale was a strong advocate of the American nation and union. In the 1820s and 1830s, as other American magazines merely compiled and reprinted articles from British periodicals, Hale was among the leaders of a group of American editors who insisted on publishing American writers.
U.S. territorial extent in 1830. 1830s – Second Great Awakening is the religious revival movement; 1830s – Oregon Trail which comes into use by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest. 1830 – Indian Removal Act; 1831 – Nat Turner's revolt; 1831 – The Liberator begins publication in 1831; 1831 – Cyrus McCormick invents the ...
July 2 – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (born 1792) August 6 – David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (born 1796) August 9 – James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (born 1748 or 1760) September 24 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
Thomas Aird, The Captive of Fez [3]; Lord Byron, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, edited by Thomas Moore, biographical [3]; Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, anonymously published, The Devil's Walk; original version published in the Morning Post, September 6, 1799 as "The Devil's Thoughts" [3]