1830 in France

Events from the year 1830 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles X (abdicated 2 August), Vacant (2–9 August), then 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)