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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 ...
Wellington's government fell in late 1830, failing to react to calls for reform. [13] The Whigs selected Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey to succeed him, who led passage of many reforms, including the Reform Act 1832, the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire), and the Factory Acts (limiting child labour).
1830 – Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914) [60] 1830 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist (d. 1905) [61] 1831 – Saint Daniele Comboni, Italian missionary and saint (d. 1881) [62] 1835 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1916) [63]
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January 11 – LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) opens, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama. January 12–27 – Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina debates the question of states' rights vs. federal authority with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts in the United States Congress.
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 ...
The book played a notable role in undermining the legitimacy of the Bourbon regime of Charles X, and bringing about the July Revolution of 1830. [9] Thiers' history was widely praised in France and won him a seat in the Académie française in 1834.
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]