What Happened in July 1830

Historical Events

Jul 5 France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
Jul 15 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, sign fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri

July Ordinances

Jul 25 Charles X signs the July Ordinances, suspending freedom of the press, among other effects

Jul 27 July Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing the laws of King Charles X

Events in 1830

Famous Birthdays

Jul 2 John Bordenave Villepigue, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Camden, South Carolina (d. 1862)
Jul 8 Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
Jul 8 Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911)

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Jul 10 Danish Antillean and French Impressionist painter, born in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)

Jul 14 Richard Henry Jackson, Irish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Kinnegad County, Westmeath, Ireland (d. 1892)
Jul 22 Herbert Stanley Oakeley, English composer, born in Ealing, England (d. 1903)
Jul 22 William Sooy Smith, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Tarlton, Ohio (d. 1916)
Jul 29 Alvan Cullom Gillem, American Major General (Union Army), born in Gainesboro, Tennessee (d. 1875)
Jul 31 František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, born in Opočno, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1892)

Born in 1830

Famous Weddings

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

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

Famous Deaths

Jul 14 Anthony van Haersolte, Dutch politician and member of Executing Regime, dies at 73