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The 1830s: 1830–1839
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Parliament passed the Great Reform Act in 1832 after riots across England, while Darwin sailed on the Beagle collecting the specimens behind evolution. Poles rose in Warsaw in 1830, only to be crushed by Russian armies.
1832 reformed Parliament and radicalized a generation of writers. Hugo's Les Misérables builds to the Paris uprising of June 1832, and Spielberg's Amistad follows the 1839 slave-ship revolt into an American courtroom. Open the 1830s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 1830s
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Browse 56 books, 35 movies, 1 TV show and 2 games set in the 1830s (1830–1839).
The Pale Blue Eye
West Point New York 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to…
Nosferatu
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature Hutter…
Nosferatu the Vampyre
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Vampyr
A traveller arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family living there soon opens up a network of associations between the dead and the living which pulls…
Les Misérables
Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes…
The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally…
The Alamo
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Amistad
In 1839 the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut and their release becomes the subject…
Young Mr. Lincoln
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin where he is encouraged by his first love Ann Rutledge to pursue law. Following her tragic death Lincoln…
The Birth of a Nation
Nat Turner a former slave in America leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
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