1830 in France

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1830
in
France

Decades:
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
See also:Other events of 1830
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Events from the year 1830 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchCharles X (abdicated 2 August), Vacant (2–9 August), then Louis Philippe I (from 9 August)

Events[]

  • July 5 - French invasion of Algiers in 1830.[1]
  • July 17 - Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine. It chain stitches at 200/minute.
  • July 25 - Rioting breaks out in Paris against Charles X
  • July 27–29 - July Revolution ("Three Glorious Days") - people in Paris rebel against the Ordinance of St. Cloud by King Charles X of France and clash against the National Guard - 1,800 rioters and 300 soldiers die and the king has to flee the capital.[1]
  • August 2 - Abdication of King Charles X in favor of his grandson, Henry, Count of Chambord, who is not allowed to take the throne.
  • August 9 - The Duke of Orleans becomes King Louis Philippe. François-René de Chateaubriand sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the new king and retires to write his memoirs.
  • August 13 - Louis Philippe appoints the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister.
  • November 2 - Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister.

Arts and literature[]

  • 25 February - The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris is marked by protests from an audience who recognise it as an attack on Classicism.[1][2]
  • c. October - Eugène Delacroix's paints Liberty Leading the People commemorating the July Revolution.[1]
  • November - Publication of Stendhal's historical psychological novel The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) in Paris.[1]
  • 5 December - World premiere of Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie fantastique, at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Births[]

  • 23 February - Henri Meilhac, dramatist and opera librettist (died 1897)
  • 10 AprilPierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (died 1902)
  • 10 July - Camille Pissarro, painter (died 1903)
  • 8 September - Frédéric Mistral, poet, shares the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 (died 1914)
  • 17 December - Jules de Goncourt, writer (died 1870)

Deaths[]

  • 4 February - Marc Antoine de Beaumont, nobleman and soldier (born 1763)
  • 15 February - Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette, soldier and politician (born 1769)
  • 17 March - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (born 1764)
  • 31 July - Joseph Philippe de Clairville, botanist and entomologist (born 1742)
  • 30 August - Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (born 1756)
  • 7 November - Joseph Barbanègre, soldier (born 1772)
  • 29 November - Charles Simon Catel, composer and teacher (born 1773)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ King, Steve (1830-02-25). "Hugo, Hernani, Hero". Today in Literature. Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
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