Revolutions of 1830

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Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution
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Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution
Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1834), in the Musée d'Art Ancien, Brussels
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Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1834), in the Musée d'Art Ancien, Brussels

The nineteenth century is marked in Europe by a set of civil wars which marks the wake of the European nations and the establishment of nation states.

The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe. The key events were the two "romantic" revolutions :

Both revolutions led to the establishment of very similar constitutional monarchies, called popular monarchies. Louis-Philippe of France became king on 31 July, 1830, Leopold I of Belgium became king, on 21 July 1831. The French July monarchy would last till the 1848 Revolution. The Belgian monarchy is still alive and well.

Louis-Philippe wore the title of the King of the French while Leopold I of Belgium, the King of the Belgians. This title reflects that the king does not take his mandate from God but from the people.

In 1832, Leopold married Princess Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans, daughter of Louis-Philippe.

Simultaneously in Poland, the November Uprising of the Poles against Russia occurred.

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