1830:
May 30: Indian Removal Act is signed into law in the United States
June 26: Death of George IV of England; William IV ascends to the throne
August 28: Peter Cooper races his locomotive, the Tom Thumb, against a horse
December 10: Birth of American poet Emily Dickinson
1831:
July 4: Death of former president James Monroe
August: Nat Turner's slave rebellion breaks out in Virginia
November 11: Nat Turner executed by hanging
December 27: Charles Darwin sails from England aboard HMS Beagle
1832:
January 13: Birth of American author Horatio Alger
April: Black Hawk war on the American frontier begins; it would mark the only military service of Abraham Lincoln
November 14: Death of Charles Carroll of Maryland, the last living signer of the Declaration of Indepenence, and reputedly the wealthiest man in America
1833:
March 4: Andrew Jackson sworn in for second term as US President
October 21: Birth of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, sponsor of the Nobel Prize.
1834:
March: Andrew Jackson censured by US Congress
August 1: Slavery abolished in the British Empire
September 2: Death of Thomas Telford, British engineer, designer of the Menai Suspension Bridge and other noteworthy structures
1835:
January 30: First assassination attempt on a US president. Andrew Jackson is the intended victim, and he in turn attacks the failed assassin
May: Railroad in Belgium is first railroad on European continent
July 6: Death of US Chief Justice John Marshall
September 7: Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands
November 25: Birth of Andrew Carnegie
November 30: Birth of Samuel Clemens, who would achieve enormous fame under his pen name, Mark Twain
December: Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales
December: Great fire of New York City
1836:
January: Siege of the Alamo begins at San Antonio, Texas
February: Samuel Colt patents the revolver
February 24: Birth of American artist Winslow Homer
March 6: Battle of the Alamo ends. Deaths of Davy Crockett, William Barrett Travis and James Bowie
April 21: Battle of San Jacinto
June 28: Death of former US president James Madison
September 14: Death of former US Vice President Aaron Burr
October: Charles Darwin arrives in England after voyage aboard HMS Beagle
November: Martin Van Buren elected President of the United States
1837:
March 4: Martin Van Buren sworn in as President of the US
April 17: Birth of J.P. Morgan, American banker
May: Panic of 1837, financial crisis, begins in New York City
June 20: Death of William IV of Great Britain
June: Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
November 7: Death of abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy at hands of pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois
1838:
January 4: Birth of Charles Stratton, better known as General Tom Thumb
May: Trail of Tears, forced relocation of Cherokee tribe in the US
May 10: Birth of John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1839:
June: Louis Daguerre patents his camera
July: Slave rebellion aboard the ship Amistad
July 6: Birth of John D. Rockefeller, American oil magnate and philanthropist
December 5: Birth of George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer
