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1830Jun 26King George IV died at Windsor Palace. King William IV ascended to the throne.1
Dec 03Frederic Leighton born at 13 Brunswick Terrace, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.2
1831Jan 12Philip Webb born in Oxford, England.
May 07Richard Norman Shaw born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1833--William Ralph Emerson born.
Aug 28Edward Burne-Jones born in Birmingham, England.
1834Mar 24William Morris born in Walthamstow, Essex, England.3-1
Jul 04Christopher Dresser born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Jul 11James Abbott McNeill Whistler born in Lowell, Massachusetts.4
1835Nov 25Industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.6
1836--Joseph Worcester born.
--Augustus Pugin published Contrasts.5
Mar 11Charles Locke Eastlake born.6
1837Jan 18John Ruskin entered Christ Church College, Oxford.8-35
Mar 04Martin Van Buren inaugurated 8th President of the United States.1
Apr 13John Pierpont Morgan born.6
Jun 20King William IV died. Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.1
Sep Dante Gabriel Rossetti entered King's College School.7
1838Jan 06Samuel 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 17Henry Holiday born in London, England.
Nov 11Frank Furness born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Nov 16William de Morgan born in Chester, England.
1 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001
2 Frederic, Lord Leighton : Eminent Victorian Artist, Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Leonee Ormond, Richard Ormond, and Benedict Read, 1996
3 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994
4 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval, 1994
5 The Catholic Encyclopedia
6 New York Times on the Web
7 Rossetti Archive
8 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000