Major Events
- May 13 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
- May 28 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
- Jun 12 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch
- Aug 28 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!
- More 1830 Events
Did You Know?
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published by Boston firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon
James G. Blaine
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Camille Pissarro
Franz Joseph I
Frederic Mistral
Emily DickinsonMore People Born in 1830
Simón BolívarMore 1830 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1830
- Jul 8 French magician Jean Eugène Robert (24) weds Parisian watchmaker's daughter Josèphe Cecile Houdin (18 or 19), both take on the hyphenated Robert-Houdin surname
- Sep 14 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (20) marries her cousin Prince Albert of Prussia (20) (marriage dissolved 1849)
Andrew Jackson
Arthur Wellesley