Calendar of Literary Facts

1830

  • Louis Godey founds The Lady’s Book (later renamed Godey’s Lady’s Book) in Philadelphia
  • Simon Pokagon is born
  • The July Revolution in France results in the abdication of Charles X and the accession of Louis-Philippe as king
  • An insurrection against Russian rule erupts in Warsaw, Poland
  • French troops occupy Algeria
  • Joseph Smith publishes the Book of Mormon and founds the Mormon Church in Fayette, New York
  • Robert Brown discovers the cell nucleus of plants
  • William Cobbett publishes Rural Rides
  • The U.S. Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the government to move all Eastern Indians west of the Mississippi to make room for white settlers
  • Stendhal publishes Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black)
  • Christina Rossetti is born (December 5)
  • Frédéric Mistral is born (September 8)
  • Emily Dickinson is born (December 10)
  • Paul Heyse is born (March 15)