Events 1830s – Darwin’s Beagle Voyage

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• July 17, 1830 – Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine in France; it chains stitches at 200/minute.
• August 31, 1830 – Edwin Beard Budding is granted a patent for the invention of the lawnmower.
• February 25, 1836 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
• February 24, 1839 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
• January 2, 1839 – First photo of the Moon taken by photographer Louis Daguerre
• May 1837 – Samuel Morse patents the telegraph.
• 1839 – Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber.
• 1834 – Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars.

• August 25, 1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
• September 27, 1830 – The Belgian Revolution ends by liberating Brussels from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• October 4, 1830 – The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• December 20, 1830 – The independence of Belgium is recognized by the Great Powers.
• July 21, 1831 – Leopold I of Belgium is inaugurated as first king of the Belgians.
• August 2, 1831 – The Dutch ten days’ campaign in Belgium is halted by a French army.
• December 4, 1832 – Battle of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch enforcement, the citadel, is under French attack.
• December 23, 1832 – The Battle of Antwerp ends with the Netherlands losing the city.
• 1839 – Half of the Limburg province of Belgium is added to the Netherlands (since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg).
• April 19, 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.

Charles Darwin’s Voyage

• December 27, 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle.
• January 7, 1835 – HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on the voyage of 1831–1836 with Charles Darwin.
• September 7, 1835 – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle.
• January 12, 1836 – HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney.
• July 20, 1836 – Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension Island.
• October 2, 1836 – Charles Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution, having left South America on August 17.

The book about the voyage is a vivid travel memoir
as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering
biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates
Darwin’s keen powers of observation,written at a
time when Western Europeans were exploring and
charting the whole world. Although Darwin revisited
some areas during the expedition, for clarity the
chapters of the book are ordered by reference
to places and locations rather than by date.

• Charles Dickens publishes his first novel The Pickwick Papers followed by Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby
• January 14, 1831 – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is first published by Victor Hugo.
• 1832 – Publication of the first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, in Koblenz.
• 1832 – Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz‘s Vom Kriege (“On War“).
• June 10, 1834 – Thomas Carlyle moves to Cheyne Row (Carlyle’s House) in London.
• August 25, 1835 – In the U.S., the New York Sun prints the first of six installments of the Great Moon Hoax.
• December 1, 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
• March 1836 – First monthly part of Charles Dickens‘ The Pickwick Papers (“The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club …, edited by Boz”) published in London.
• 1836 – The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.
• February 1837 – Charles Dickens‘s Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.
• March 23, 1839 – The Boston Morning Post first records the use of “OK” (oll korrect).

• December 5, 1830 – Hector Berlioz‘s most famous work, Symphonie fantastique, has its world premiere in Paris.
• 1833 – Richard Wagner completes his first opera, Die Feen (The Fairies).
• November 17, 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi‘s first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, opens in Milan.