| 1830–1832 | Cholera epidemic sweeps across Europe |
| 1830 | France invades and begins conquest of Algeria |
| 1832 | George Sand, Indiana |
| 1833 | Factory Act regulates work of children in Great Britain; abolition of slavery in British Empire |
| 1834 | German Zollverein is established under Prussian leadership |
| 1835 | Belgium opens first continental railway built with state funds |
| 1839 | Beginning of Opium War; invention of photography |
| 1841 | Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop |
| 1846 | Famine strikes Ireland; Corn Laws are repealed in England; peasant insurrection in Austrian province of Galicia |
| 1848 | Revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe; last great wave of Chartist demonstrations in Britain; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto; abolition of slavery in French colonies; end of serfdom in Austrian Empire |
| 1851 | Crystal Palace exhibition in London |