| 1830 | Jun 26 | King George IV died at Windsor Palace. King William IV ascended to the throne.1 |
| Dec 03 | Frederic Leighton born at 13 Brunswick Terrace, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.2 |
| 1831 | Jan 12 | Philip Webb born in Oxford, England. |
| May 07 | Richard Norman Shaw born in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 1833 | -- | William Ralph Emerson born. |
| Aug 28 | Edward Burne-Jones born in Birmingham, England. |
| 1834 | Mar 24 | William Morris born in Walthamstow, Essex, England.3-1 |
| Jul 04 | Christopher Dresser born in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| Jul 11 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler born in Lowell, Massachusetts.4 |
| 1835 | Nov 25 | Industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.6 |
| 1836 | -- | Joseph Worcester born. |
| -- | Augustus Pugin published Contrasts.5 |
| Mar 11 | Charles Locke Eastlake born.6 |
| 1837 | Jan 18 | John Ruskin entered Christ Church College, Oxford.8-35 |
| Mar 04 | Martin Van Buren inaugurated 8th President of the United States.1 |
| Apr 13 | John Pierpont Morgan born.6 |
| Jun 20 | King William IV died. Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.1 |
| Sep | Dante Gabriel Rossetti entered King's College School.7 |
| 1838 | Jan 06 | Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.6 |
| 1839 | -- | Jane Burden born in St. Helen's Passage off Holywell, Oxfordshire, England.3-136 |
| Jun 17 | Henry Holiday born in London, England. |
| Nov 11 | Frank Furness born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Nov 16 | William de Morgan born in Chester, England. |