page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 1830–1847 – The Reign of Louis-Philippe
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 19th century / 1830–1847 – The Reign of Louis-Philippe
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1830
  25 February – Pandemonium in the audience at the Théâtre Français, between the supporters of the classical style and those of the new romantic style, during the first performance of Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani.
  16 March – Two hundred twenty deputies send a message to king Charles X criticizing his governance.
  July – First vespasiennes, or public urinals,  also serving as advertising kiosks, appear on Paris boulevards.
  25 July – Charles X issues ordinances dissolving the national assembly, changing the election law and suppressing press freedom.
  27–29 July – The Trois Glorieuses, three days of street battles between the army and opponents of the government. The insurgents install a provisional government in the Hôtel de Ville. Charles X leaves Saint-Cloud, his summer residence.
  9 August – the Duke of Orléans, Louis-Philippe, is sworn King of the French.
  1831
  Population – 785,000
  27 July – First stone laid of the column in the Place de la Bastille, honoring those killed during the 1830 revolution.
  31 October – Louis Philippe moves from the Palais-Royal to the Tuileries Palace.
  Victor Hugo's novel Hunchback of Notre-Dame published, reviving interest in medieval Paris.
  1832 
  19 February. First deaths from cholera epidemic. Between 29 March and 1 October, the disease kills 18,500 persons.
  Havas news agency in business.
  Feminist La Femme libre (brochure) published in Paris.
  The illustrated Le Charivari newspaper begins publication.
  1833
  Society of Saint Vincent de Paul founded.
  1834
  30 October – The pont du Carrousel opens.
  1835
  28 November – Assassination attempt on Louis-Philippe by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi, using an "infernal machine" of twenty gun barrels firing at once, as the king is riding on the Boulevard du Temple. The king is unharmed, but eighteen people are killed.
  1836
  Founding of two popular inexpensive newspapers, La Presse and Le Siècle.
  29 July Arc de Triomphe dedicated.
  25 October – Dedication of the obelisk of Luxor on the Place de la Concorde.
  Petite Roquette Prison built.
  1837
  26 August – First railroad line opens between the rue de Londres and Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The trip takes half an hour.
  1838
  Louis Daguerre takes the first modern photograph, a Daguerreotype View of the Boulevard du Temple, showing a man while his shoes were being shined, the man stood motionless long enough to be photographed.
  The Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris (Polish Library) is founded.
  1839
  7 January – Louis Daguerre presents his pioneer work on photography at the French Academy of Sciences. The academy gives him a pension, and publishes the technology for free use by anyone in the world.
  12–13 May – Followers of Louis Blanqui begin armed uprising in attempt to overthrow government, but are quickly arrested by the army and national guard.
  2 August – Opening of railway line along the Seine between Paris and Versailles.
  1840 
  16 May – Opening of the new hall of the Opéra-Comique on Place Favart.
  14 June – During a review of the national guard by Louis-Philippe at the Carrousel, the soldiers shout slogans demanding reform.
  28 July – Dedication of the July Column on the Place de la Bastille, honoring those killed during the Revolution of 1830.
  15 December – Napoleon's ashes are placed in the crypt of the church of Les Invalides
  24 December – Custom of the Christmas tree is introduced to Paris by the princess Helene de Mecklembourg, wife of the Duke of Orléans, Louis-Philippe's eldest son.
  1841 – Population: 935,000
  27 February – First artesian wells, 560 meters deep, go into service at Grenelle to provide drinking water.
  3 April 1841 – Law passed enabling the construction of the 33 kilometre Thiers wall fortification to encircle Paris.
  1842
  First French cigarettes manufactured at Gros-Caillou, in the 7th arrondissement.
  8 May – First major railroad accident in France, on the Paris-Versailles line at Meudon, kills fifty seven persons and injures three hundred.
  1843
  4 March – L'Illustration newspaper, modeled on The Illustrated London News, begins publication.
  2 May – Opening of railroad line from Paris to Orléans, follo
caption: Luxor obelisk is hoisted into place on the Place de la Concorde (25 October 1836).
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