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December 6 – The Whig Party (United States), at its first ever national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, nominates former U.S. Army General William Henry Harrison to be its candidate for President of the United States in the 1840 election.
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Dorothy Olsen (1916–2019) was an American aircraft pilot and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. She developed an interest in aviation at a young age and earned her private pilot's license in 1939, when it was unusual for women to be pilots.
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March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland. March 23 – The Boston Morning Post first records the use of "OK". August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in Oxford, Ohio. September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
April 9 – The world's first commercial electric telegraph line is built, next to the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton. April 19 – The Treaty of London makes the kingdom of Belgium. June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his Daguerrotype camera.
Days of May. A meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during May 1832, painted by Benjamin Haydon. The Days of May was a period of significant social unrest and political tension in the United Kingdom in May 1832, after the Tories [a] blocked the Third Reform Bill in the House of Lords, which aimed to extend parliamentary representation to ...
4 July – Chartists riot in Birmingham. [10] 15 July – first clipper ship launched in Britain, the schooner Scottish Maid at Alexander Hall 's yard in Aberdeen. [13] 23 July – British forces under Sir John Keane capture the fortress city of Ghazni, Afghanistan in the Battle of Ghazni during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
t. e. The 1830s (pronounced "eighteen-thirties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1830, and ended on December 31, 1839. In this decade, the world saw a rapid rise of imperialism and colonialism, particularly in Asia and Africa.
