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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 ...
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution.. The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe which took place in 1830. It included two "romantic nationalist" revolutions, the Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the July Revolution in France along with rebellions in Congress Poland, Italian states, Portugal and ...
February 3, 1830 – Greece is liberated from the Ottoman forces as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. July 20, 1830 – Greece grants citizenship to Jews. May 7, 1832 – The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, is chosen King. Thus begins the history of modern Greece.
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]
Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency.His great-grandfather Krishnakanta Bandyopadhyay was a Rarhi Kulin (noble) Brahmin.Among Kulin Brahmins – descendants of the five families of Brahmins imported from Kannauj by Ballal Sen in the 12th century as per popular myth – those from the Rarhi district of West Bengal were notorious in the 19th century for ...
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand; Cyrano is famous for his dueling. The Years Between, four-book series by Paul Féval, fils; and M Lassez: – 1928 features the ongoing conflict between the fiery Cyrano de Bergerac and D'Artagnan the aging legend. Three times they fight; various interruptions prevent either Gascon from receiving satisfaction.
A. Andreas Leigh Aabel; Benjamin Vaughan Abbott; Burroughs Abbott; Joseph Henry Abbott; Robert Abbott (New South Wales politician) Abdulaziz; Alfred Ablett
Bungaree by Augustus Earle (1826) Portrait by Augustus Earle. Bungaree, or Boongaree (c. 1775 – 24 November 1830), born presumably in the Rocky Point area, New South Wales, was an Aboriginal Australian from the Darug people of the Broken Bay north of Sydney, who was known as an explorer, entertainer, and Aboriginal community leader.