November Uprising 1830–1831

Russian Empire ⚔ Congress Poland

Key battles

• Battle of Ostrołęka (1831)

Who lived through the November Uprising

Well-known people alive during 1830–1831:

• Karl Marx (1818–1883) — German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) — president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) — Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883) — German composer (1813–1883)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) — Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
• Jules Verne (1828–1905) — French writer (1828–1905)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) — British scientist (1791–1867)
• Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) — French poet and critic (1821–1867)
• Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
• Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) — French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
• James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)

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