The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, sees the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascension of his cousin Louis-Philippe, the duc d'Orléans, who himself, after eighteen precarious years on the throne, will in turn be overthrown.

It marke the shift from one constitutional monarchy, the Bourbon Restoration, to another, the July Monarchy, and the transition of power from the House of Bourbon to its cadet branch, the House of Orléans, and the substitution of the principle of popular sovereignty for hereditary right.

Supporters of the Bourbon will be called Legitimists, and supporters of Louis-Philippe Orleanists.