1830 Events

1830 Mar Lincoln Family Relocates to Illinois
Abraham Lincoln arrived with his family in the area in 1830 to settle a section of government land bisected by the river. The site, now Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial, was selecte...
1830 Mar 26 Book Of Mormon Is Published
In late March of 1830, the first copies of the Book of Mormon were published, and the first official missionary work began, as Joseph Smith instructed his brother, Samuel Harrison Smith, ...
1830 Apr 13 Jackson Interrupts Robert Hayne's Toast To Openly Challenge John C. Calhoun
Particularly notable was an incident at the April 13, 1830 Jefferson Day dinner, involving after-dinner toasts. Robert Hayne began by toasting to "The Union of the States, and the Soverei...
1830 May 26 Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act
The Removal Act paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West. The first removal treaty signed after the Removal Act w...
1830 May 26 The Indian Removal Act Is Passed
Indian Removal was a nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to remove Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. The...
1830 Jul 1 Edgar Allan Poe enrolls at West Point
Frances Allan died on February 28, 1829, and Poe visited the day after her burial. Perhaps softened by his wife's death, John Allan agreed to support Poe's attempt to be discharged in ord...
1830 Aug 25
to 1831 Aug 12
 Belgian Revolution
The authorities permitted, on the evening of the 25th, the first performance of an opera by Scribe and Auber, entitled La Muette de Portici, which had been previously proscribed. The hero...
1830 Sep 27 The Treaty Of Dancing Creek Is Signed
On September 27, 1830, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed. It represented one of the largest transfers of land that was signed between the U.S. Government and Native Americans ...
1830 Nov 30 Pope Pius VIII dies
Pius VIII was in very poor health from his election until his death. Nevertheless there were rumours that he had been poisoned. Prince Don Agostino Chigi, a contemporary of the Pope's and...
1830 Dec 25 The First Regularly Scheduled Passenger Train In The United States Begins Operation
On Christmas Day, December 25, 1830, the first regularly scheduled passenger train in the United States began operation. Chartered in 1827, the same year as the Baltimore and Ohio Railro...