1830s
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Les Poires (1831-34, English: The Pears), a famous caricature by Charles Philipon. It lampoons the French king Louis Philippe I, who ruled France from 1830 until 1848.
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The 1830s is the third decade of the 19th century.
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Politics
- French Revolution of 1830
- The First Opium War between the United Kingdom and the Qing Empire of China started in 1839.
- In France, the September 1835 laws ban political caricature, thus Le Charivari begins publishing satires of everyday life
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Art and culture
- November 4 1830 - La Caricature, French satirical journal is founded
- December 1 1832 - Le Charivari first published
- The word sadisme entered the first French dictionary in 1834, the word sadism was first attested in the English language 54 years later, in 1888.
- In Lectures on Aesthetics (1835), German philosopher Friedrich Hegel pronounced the "death of art"
- The start of the Victorian era (1837 - 1901)
- The Royal Museum at Naples, Being Some Account of The Erotic Paintings, Bronzes, and Statues Contained in that Famous "Cabinet Secret" (1832) by César Famin
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Science and technology
- Start of mass media as we know it today, with the first cheap newspapers (penny press)
- The daguerreotype is presented to the French academy in 1839
- The Phenakistoscope is invented
- The Zoetrope presented to the world in 1834
- Invention of telegraph (1837) in Great Britain and the United States;
- Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States.
- Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin's expedition on the HMS Beagle.
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Literature
- Roman frénétique flourishes in France
- Bousingo movement in France
- The Red and the Black (1830), a novel by French writer Stendhal
- Sarrasine (1830), a novella written by Honoré de Balzac
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo
- Le Chef d'œuvre inconnu (1831) by Honoré de Balzac
- Loss of Breath (1832) by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- Gamiani, ou une nuit d'excès (1833) by anonymous
- Champavert, contes immoraux (1833), Petrus Borel's collection of stories
- Séraphîta (1834) by Honore de Balzac
- Viy (1835) by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol
- Bibliographie des fous : De quelques livres excentriques (1835) by Charles Nodier
- Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) by the French writer Théophile Gautier
- Diary of a Madman, 1835 farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol
- La Fille aux yeux d'or (1835), a novella by Honoré de Balzac
- The Nose (1836) by Nikolai Gogol
- La Morte Amoureuse (1836) by Théophile Gautier
- Gaspard de la nuit (1836) written by Aloysius Bertrand (published posthumously)
- The Confessional Unmasked (1836) is published
- La Vénus d'Ille (1837) by Prosper Mérimée
- A Passion in the Desert (1837), a novella by French writer Honoré de Balzac
- Nathaniel Hawthorne collected some of his stories as Twice-Told Tales (1837)
- Woyzeck (1837) by Georg Büchner
- Les Cent Contes drolatiques (1832 - 37) by by Honoré de Balzac
- The Conqueror Worm (1837) by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- One of Cleopatra's Nights (1838), a novella by Théophile Gautier
- The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838), a novel by Honoré de Balzac
- The Devil's Memoirs (1838), a novel by French writer Frédéric Soulié
- "Un pauvre honteux" (1838), a poem by French writer Xavier Forneret
- "William Wilson" (1839) by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) by American writer Edgar Allan Poe
- The phrase The pen is mightier than the sword is first used
- The Charterhouse of Parma (1839), a novel by Stendhal
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Art
- Cauchemar[1], a drawing by Grandville.
- Liberty Leading the People (1831) by Eugène Delacroix
- "La procession du diable" (1831) , is a drawing by Paul Gavarni
- The Diableries (1832) of Poitevin
- Louis-Philippe as Gargantua (1833): In January Honore Daumier is released from prison after serving a 6-month term for caricaturing King Louis-Philippe of France as Gargantua in La Caricature
- The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833), a painting by Paul Delaroche
- Le Magot de la Chine (1834) , a drawing by Honoré Daumier
- La Rue Transnonain (1834) , a litho by Honoré Daumier
- The Killing (1834) by sculptor Antoine-Augustin Préault
- Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea) (1835-36) by Hippolyte Flandrin
- Rowing Home (1836) by Winslow Homer
- Etude de nègre (1838) by Théodore Chassériau
- The Ballad of Lenore, or The Dead Go Fast (1839), a painting by Horace Vernet
- “Character Heads” (1839), a lithograph by Matthias Rudolph Toma of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s busts
- The Poor Poet (1839), a painting by Carl Spitzweg
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Music
- Invention of the saxophone by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax.
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Photography
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Births
- Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 – 1904), French photographer
- Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904), British photographer
- Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901), British photographer
- Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883), French artist
- Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883), French artist
- Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), British writer
- Félicien Rops (1833 – 1898), Belgian artist
- Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897), German composer
- James McNeill Whistler, British painter (1834 - 1903)
- Edgar Degas, French painter (1834 - 1917)
- Ernst Haeckel, German naturalist (1834 — 1919)
- Henry Spencer Ashbee, British bibliophile (1834 - 1900)
- William Morris, British designer (1834 - 1896)
- Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909), Italian criminologist
- Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American writer
- Cora Pearl (1835 – 1886), courtisane
- Alcide Bonneau (1836 - 1904), French intellectual
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836 - 1895), Austrian writer
- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 – 1912), Dutch painter
- Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 – 1911), French painter
- Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923), American painter
- Ferdinand Cheval (1836 - 1924) , French postman
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909), British writer
- Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837 - 1919), French writer
- Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), Italian noblewoman
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838 - 1889), French writer
- Samuel Bing (1838 - 1905), German art dealer
- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), British art critic
- Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906), French painter
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1839 - 1902), German psychiatrist
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Deaths
- Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)
- Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781 – 1831)
- Kaspar Hauser (1812 – 1833), German foundling
- Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833), French inventor
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), British writer
- James Hogg (1770 - 1835), Scottish writer
- John Constable (1776–1837), British painter
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