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| 1834 |
| | | The Tories in Britain adopt a reassuring name for an uncertain future – Conservatives | |
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| 1834 |
| | | The opponents of US president Andrew Jackson, mockingly called King Andrew, become known as the Whig party | |
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| 1835 |
| | | Alexis de Tocqueville publishes in French the first two volumes of his extremely influential study Democracy in America | |
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| c. 1837 |
| | | The Whig party in Britain begin referring to themselves as Liberals | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell pioneers mass political demonstrations, which become known as 'monster meetings' | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Louis Napoleon, asking the French people to approve his elevation to emperor as Napoleon III, receives a resounding yes in the plebiscite | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Lionel Nathan Rothschild becomes the first Jew to sit in Britain's House of Commons, taking his oath on the Old Testament | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1861 |
| | | The Liberals recover Mexico City and elect Benito Juarez as president | |
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| 1863 |
| | | President Lincoln, in honouring the Union dead at Gettysburg, captures in three minutes the essence of American democracy | |
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