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  • Algeria
    1830
    Algerian War

    The first Governor-General of Algeria

    Algeria
    1830

    The French invaded Algeria in 1830. Directed by Marshall Bugeaud, who became the first Governor-General of Algeria, the conquest was violent, marked by a "scorched earth" policy designed to reduce the power of the native rulers, the Dey, including massacres, mass rapes, and other atrocities.




  • Venezuela
    Wednesday Jan 13, 1830
    Simón Bolívar

    Venezuela was proclaimed independent

    Venezuela
    Wednesday Jan 13, 1830

    After the facts, Bolivar continued to govern in a rarefied environment, cornered by fractional disputes. Uprisings occurred in New Granada, Venezuela, and Ecuador during the following two years. The separatists accused him of betraying republican principles and of wanting to establish a permanent dictatorship. Gran Colombia declared war against Peru when president General La Mar invaded Guayaquil. He was later defeated by Marshall Antonio José de Sucre in the Battle of the Portete de Tarqui, 27 February 1829. Sucre was killed on 4 June 1830. General Juan José Flores wanted to separate the southern departments (Quito, Guayaquil, and Azuay), known as the District of Ecuador, from Gran Colombia to form an independent country and become its first President. Venezuela was proclaimed independent on 13 January 1830 and José Antonio Páez maintained the presidency of that country, banishing Bolivar.




  • Gran Colombia
    Wednesday Jan 20, 1830
    Simón Bolívar

    Dream fell apart

    Gran Colombia
    Wednesday Jan 20, 1830

    On 20 January 1830, as his dream fell apart, Bolívar delivered his final address to the nation, announcing that he would be stepping down from the presidency of Gran Colombia. In his speech, a distraught Bolívar urged the people to maintain the union and to be wary of the intentions of those who advocated for separation.




  • Indiana, U.S.
    1830
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln took responsibility for chores

    Indiana, U.S.
    1830

    As a teen, Lincoln took responsibility for chores, and customarily gave his father all earnings from work outside the home until he was 21. Lincoln was tall, strong, and athletic, and became adept at using an ax. He gained a reputation for strength and audacity after winning a wrestling match with the renowned leader of ruffians known as "the Clary's Grove boys".




  • Illinois, U.S.
    Mar, 1830
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln family including Thomas, moved west to Illinois

    Illinois, U.S.
    Mar, 1830

    In March 1830, fearing another milk sickness outbreak, several members of the extended Lincoln family, including Thomas, moved west to Illinois, a free state, and settled in Macon County.




  • Gran Colombia
    Tuesday Apr 27, 1830
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar finally resigned the presidency

    Gran Colombia
    Tuesday Apr 27, 1830

    Bolívar finally resigned the presidency on 27 April 1830, intending to leave the country for exile in Europe. He had already sent several crates containing his belongings and writings ahead of him to Europe, but he died before setting sail from Cartagena.




  • Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    1830
    Frederick Douglass

    Converted to Christianity

    Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    1830

    As a child, Douglass was exposed to a number of religious sermons, and in his youth, he sometimes heard Sophia Auld reading the Bible. In time, he became interested in literacy; he began reading and copying bible verses, and he eventually converted to Christianity.


  • Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 26, 1830
    Buckingham Palace

    Death of George IV

    Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 26, 1830

    On the death of George IV in 1830, his younger brother King William IV hired Edward Blore to finish the work.


  • Egypt
    1830
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    State of Law and Order

    Egypt
    1830

    By this time, Muhammad Ali was already moving towards an establishment of an independent state, which he first expressed in 1830, by creating a state of "law and order", where Christians within Egypt can be safe, which was a way Muhammad Ali was able to pull influence from Europe. He started gradually renovating more of the government for him to hold more sway over it rather than the sultan. He implemented a police force, mostly well known within Cairo and Alexandria, that functioned not just as a form of authority over the law, but also as a form of a public prosecutor's office.


  • Varel, Duchy of Oldenburg (Present Day Varel, Germany)
    Friday Aug 20, 1830
    Lothar Meyer

    Birth

    Varel, Duchy of Oldenburg (Present Day Varel, Germany)
    Friday Aug 20, 1830

    Lothar Meyer was born in Varel, Germany (then part of the Duchy of Oldenburg). He was the son of Friedrich August Meyer, a physician, and Anna Biermann.


  • Algeria
    1830
    Ottoman Empire

    French invaded Ottoman Algeria

    Algeria
    1830

    In 1830, the French invaded Ottoman Algeria.


  • Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino in Santa Marta, Gran Colombia (now Colombia)
    Friday Dec 17, 1830
    Simón Bolívar

    Death

    Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino in Santa Marta, Gran Colombia (now Colombia)
    Friday Dec 17, 1830

    On 17 December 1830, at the age of 47, Simón Bolívar died of tuberculosis in the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino in Santa Marta, Gran Colombia (now Colombia).


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