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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.
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.
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 ...
February 1 – Thomas W. Cobb, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1824 to 1828 (born 1784) June 25 – Ephraim McDowell, physician and pioneer surgeon (born 1771) 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)
— Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (16 May 1830), calling to his physician, who had stepped out of the room "Fuck, a bullet wound!" [51] ("¡Carajo, un balazo!") — Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan independence leader and President of Peru and Bolivia (4 June 1830), after being shot while riding in the jungle of Colombia ...
Léon Cogniet – Scenes of July 1830; John Constable – The Glebe Farm; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Cathedral of Chartres; Eugène Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People [3] Henri Decaisne – Maria Malibran as Desdemona; William Etty — Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes ...
Its circulation would reach 150,000. The magazine contained recipes, articles on beauty and health, sentimental and didactic writing and book reviews as well as the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The magazine lasted until 1898 [1]