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1830s en · NOUN

(plural, plural-only) The decade from 1830 to 1839.
- Private companies have, traditionally, dominated Britain's railway history. The first railways were built by private individuals and groups, and by the late 1830s building a railway was considered the ideal 'get rich quick' scheme. 2024 July 24, Richard Foster, “Rail reform has never been easy”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 28:
- During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops. 1993, Ronald Aminzade, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871, page 68:
- A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money. 2020 October 2, Maureen O'Hare, “‘Price of blood’: Financial London’s grim history revealed in new tour”, in CNN:
- He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead. 2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107: