General
Population: 1.14 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include Balzac, Disraeli, Victor Hugo Notre Dame de Paris, Giacomo Leopardi, Thomas L Peacock (satire),
Poe (poems),
Music includes Bellini, Chopin, Herold, Meyerbeer, Schumann
Art includes Delacroix "Le 28 Juliet 1830"
- Religion: Cardinal Mauro Capellari (Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari) elected Pope Gregory XVI
- Science: Charles Darwin sets sail aboard the Beagle to 1836
Chloroform simultaneously invented by Guthrie and Liebig
Faraday carries out experiments on electromagnetic induction
Ross determines position of magnetic north
- Technology: Sauria of France develops easy-light matches
First steam rail line opens - Cooper tests steam locomotive
Faraday builds first electric motor and generator
Cyrus McCormick's reaper
Joseph Henry invents telegraph and first electromagnetic motor
- Deaths: Piano maker Sebastien Erard, Actress Sarah Kemble (Mrs. Siddons), Composer Ignaz Pleyel, James Monroe, Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
Statesman Baron HFK vom and zum Stein, Field Marshal August Neithardt von Gneisenau, Statesman Ioannes A Kapodistrias, General Karl von Clausewitz,
Author Friedrich maximilian von Klinger, Poet John Trumbull, Philosopher Friedrich Hegel, Historian Georg Niebuhr, Historian William Roscoe, BIble printer Isaiah Thomas,
Africa
- General: Legion Etrangere formed to help French colonial possessions in Africa (Foreign Legion)
- Egypt: Cholera among Europeans
Americas
- General: German emigration to North America reaches 15,000
- Barbados: Cyclone
- Brazil: Emperor Pedro I abdicates and is succeeded by Pedro II his son age 5
- Canada: Canada allowed permanent Crown Revenues
- Mexico: End of President Vicente Guerrero
Asia
- China: Peking earthquake - predicted 6-weeks earlier by Mormon girl
Europe
- General: Great Cholera Pandemic reaches central Europe
- Belgium: Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg elected Leopold I King of Belgians, Separation of Belgium from the Netherlands
- France: Wreched conditions of the working classes in Lyons leads to uprisings
King Louis Philippe creates the French Foreign Legion
French workers riot in Lyons
- Great Britain: London Bridge opened
Lord John Russell introduces Reform Bill that abolishes all "nomination" boroughs
Great Reform Bill riot in Bristol results in 250 wounded or killed
- Italian States: Charles Albert becomes King of Sardinia-Piedmont 'till abdication in 1849
Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini forms Young Italy movement
Uprising in Modena Parma and Papal States put down by Austria
- Luxembourg: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg divided into two parts and larger goes to Belgium
- Poland: Polish died declares independence - Russians defeat forces at Ostroleka
- Switzerland: Mass demonstrations lead to more liberal legislation – expansion of franchise and popular sovereignty
Middle East
- Syria: Mohammed Ali of Egypt seizes Syria and rules it until 1840 (Ottoman Empire since 1516)
Pacific