What Happened in 1830 — Events, Births & Deaths

The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.

The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.

The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.

U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.

Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

July Revolution: Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.

A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.

The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.

An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.