1830 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles X, Vacant, then Louis Philippe I

  Events

• July 5 - French invasion of Algiers in 1830.
• July 17 - Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent 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 - 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 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
• 10 April – Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist
• 10 July - Camille Pissarro, painter
• 8 September - Frédéric Mistral, poet, shares the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904
• 17 December - Jules de Goncourt, writer

  Deaths

• 4 February - Marc Antoine de Beaumont, nobleman and soldier
• 15 February - Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette, soldier and politician
• 17 March - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal
• 31 July - Joseph Philippe de Clairville, botanist and entomologist
• 30 August - Louis Henri, Prince of Condé
• 7 November - Joseph Barbanègre, soldier
• 29 November - Charles Simon Catel, composer and teacher