Events from the year 1830 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Charles X (abdicated 2 August) Vacant (2–9 August) Louis Philippe I (from 9 August)
Events July 5 – French invasion of Algiers in 1830. July 17 – Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine. It chain stitches at 200/minute. July 25 – Rioting breaks out in Paris against Charles X July 27–29 – July Revolution ("Three Glorious Days") – people in Paris rebel against the Ordinance of St. Cloud by King Charles X of France and clash against the National Guard – 1,800 rioters and 300 soldiers die and the king has to flee the capital. August 2 – Abdication of King Charles X in favor of his grandson, Henry, Count of Chambord, who is not allowed to take the throne. August 9 – The Duke of Orleans becomes King Louis Philippe. François-René de Chateaubriand sacrifices his political career by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the new king and retires to write his memoirs. August 13 – Louis Philippe appoints the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister. November 2 – Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as prime minister.
Arts and literature 25 February – The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris is marked by protests from an audience who recognise it as an attack on Classicism. c. October – Eugène Delacroix's paints Liberty Leading the People commemorating the July Revolution. November – Publication of Stendhal's historical psychological novel The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) in Paris. 5 December – World premiere of Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie fantastique, at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Births 23 February – Henri Meilhac, dramatist and opera librettist (died 1897) 10 April – Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (died 1902) 10 July – Camille Pissarro, painter (died 1903) 8 September – Frédéric Mistral, poet, shares the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904 (died 1914) 17 December – Jules de Goncourt, writer (died 1870)
Deaths 4 February – Marc Antoine de Beaumont, nobleman and soldier (born 1763) 15 February – Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette, soldier and politician (born 1769) 17 March – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (born 1764) 31 July – Joseph Philippe de Clairville, botanist and entomologist (born 1742) 30 August – Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (born 1756) 7 November – Joseph Barbanègre, soldier (born 1772) 29 November – Charles Simon Catel, composer and teacher (born 1773) Rosalie Duthé, courtesan and artists' model (born 1748)
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