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| 1829 |
| | | The Metropolitan Police, set up in London by Robert Peel, become known as 'bobbies' from his first name | |
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| 1829 |
| | | 20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | |
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| 1829 |
| | | The Emancipation Act, enabling Daniel O'Connell to take his seat at Westminster, at last removes the restrictions on Catholics in UK public life | |
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| 1829 |
| | | The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies | |
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| 1829 |
| | | Gioacchino Rossini's opera William Tell has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1829 |
| | | German composer Felix Mendelssohn visits the Hebrides and see's Fingal's Cave, later the theme of his Hebrides Overture | |
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| 1829 |
| | | Oxford and Cambridge compete against each other in the first university boat race, held at Henley | |
|  | Boat Race souvenir, printed cloth 1876
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| 1829 |
| | | The locomotive Rocket, built by George and Robert Stephenson, defeats two rivals in the Rainhill trials, near Liverpool | |
|  | Stephenson's Rocket (replica)
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| 1830 |
| | | William IV succeeds his brother George IV as the British king | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in the Paris audience on the first night | |
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| 1830 |
| | | The death of the last infant cousin senior to her in the royal succession makes Victoria heir to the British throne | |
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| c. 1830 |
| | | A network of undercover abolitionists in the southern states of America help slaves escape to freedom in the north | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem 'Old Ironsides' prompts a public response that saves the frigate from the scrapyard | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Richard Lander and his brother John explore the lower reaches of the Niger, proving that the great river is navigable | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Earl Grey becomes British prime minister at the head of a Whig government committed to reform | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Hokusai begins to publish his famous colour-printed views of Mount Fuji | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Bolívar resigns as president of Gran Colombia shortly before dying of tuberculosis | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Sucre is assassinated on his journey home to Quito from a congress in Bogotá | |
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| 1830 |
| | | A revolution erupts in Paris in July and sweeps Charles X from the throne | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Louis-Philippe, the Citizen King, is welcomed in Paris in a new role – as 'king of the French, by the will of the people' | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Milosh Obrenovich wins recognition for an autonomous Serbia, with himself as prince | |
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| 1830 |
| | | A French army invades Algeria, beginning the process which brings the region within the French empire | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, to push the American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi | |
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| 1830 |
| | | French author Stendhal publishes his novel Le Rouge et Le Noir ('The Red and the Black') | |
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| 1830 |
| | | The Book of Mormon, translated from miraculously discovered holy tablets, is published by their finder Joseph Smith | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Diego Portales begins a 30-year spell as Chile's conservative dictator | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Panama becomes part of the newly independent rebublic of Colombia | |
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| 1830 |
| | | George Stephenson's railway between Liverpool and Manchester opens, with passengers pulled by eight locomotives based on Rocket | |
|  | Satire on the steam locomotive, c.1845
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| 1830 |
| | | The Symphonie fantastique by French composer Hector Berlioz has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Old London Bridge is demolished after more than six centuries, ending the chance of frost fairs on the Thames | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Old Sarum, the most notorious of Britain's rotten boroughs, has just seven voters but returns two members to parliament | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Mameluke power ends with their suppression in Baghdad, following a massacre in Cairo twenty years earlier | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini founds Young Italy, an organization to promote insurrection | |
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| 1831 |
| | | The last surviving Aborigines of Tasmania are moved by the British to a small island where they soon die out | |
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| 1831 |
| | | The first Whig Reform Bill is carried in the British House of Commons by a single vote | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Victor Hugo publishes his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which the hunchback, Quasimodo, is obsessed with Esmeralda | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Pedro I abdicates in Brazil and returns to Europe to recover his Portuguese throne (as Pedro IV) | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Samuel Francis Smith's patriotic hymn America is sung for the first time on July 4 in Boston | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Nat Turner leads a revolt by fellow slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, killing 59 whites and provoking more repressive legislation | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Evangelical preacher Charles Grandison Finney leads a new wave of revivalism in the northeastern states | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes a grand historical drama, Boris Godunov | |
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| 1831 |
| | | HMS Beagle sails from Plymouth to survey the coasts of the southern hemisphere, with Charles Darwin as the expedition's naturalist | |
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| 1832 |
| | | English scientist Michael Faraday reports his discovery of the first law of electrolysis, to be followed a year later by the second | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The full text of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 and 2, is published a few months after the poet's death | |
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| 1832 |
| | | English mathematician Charles Babbage builds a sophisticated calculating machine, which he calls a 'difference engine' | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic | |
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| 1832 |
| | | Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore has its premiere in Milan | |
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| 1832 |
| | | Robert Schumann's first published composition is Papillons ('Butterflies'), twelve short dance pieces for piano | |
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| 1832 |
| | | English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay | |
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| 1832 |
| | | After several rejections by Britain's House of Lords, the Reform Bill finally passes and receives royal assent | |
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| 1832 |
| | | Greece wins independence, with the 17-year-old Otto of Bavaria as king | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The USA suffers the first of several cholera epidemics, spanning the sixty years to 1892 | |
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| 1832 |
| | | Napoleon's son, known now as the Duke of Reichstadt, dies of tuberculosis in Vienna | |
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| 1832 |
| | | Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) has its premiere in London's Covent Garden | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger | |
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| 1832 |
| | | French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art | |
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| 1832 |
| | | 20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots | |
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| 1833 |
| | | 27-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel wins his first major appointment, as chief engineer to the Great Western railway | |
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| 1833 |
| | | 30-year-old Robert Stephenson is appointed chief engineer to the London and Birmingham railway | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Spain between supporters of Ferdinand VII's three-year-old daughter, Isabella II, and of his brother Don Carlos | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Antonio López de Santa Anna begins the first of five spells as president of Mexico | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery | |
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