Historical Events In 1831

Sep 01   Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle in the year 1831.  

Sep 05   On this day in history the birth of Victorien Sardou, French playwright; author of 'La Tosca'  

Sep 06   Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

Sep 08   On this day in history wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor)  

Sep 08   In the year 1831 william IV crowned King of Britain  

Sep 08   William IV is crowned King of Great Britain on this day in history.  

Sep 10   George Guest, composer, dies at 60 in the year 1831.  

Sep 11   Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth on this day in history.  

Sep 15   The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad on this day in history.  

Sep 18   Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60 in the year 1831.  

Sep 26   Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC on this day in history.  

Sep 27   Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 in the year 1831.  

Sep 29   John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

Oct 01   On this day in history claudius Charles Wilson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863  

Oct 06   J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers) on this day in history.  

Oct 08   On this day in history michal Jelski, composer  

Oct 09   Capo d'Istria is assassinated on this day in history.  

Oct 09   On this day in history joannis Capodistrias, Pres of Greece (1829-31), murdered  

Oct 15   Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona) on this day in history.  

Oct 17   On this day in history felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres  

Oct 18   In the year 1831 frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia  

Oct 31   In the year 1831 daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901  

Nov 07   On this day in history state Gran Colombia disbands  

Nov 08   Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English under king of India in the year 1831.  

Nov 11   On this day in history nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA  

Nov 12   On this day in history anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist  

Nov 13   On this day in history james Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)  

Nov 14   Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74 in the year 1831.  

Nov 15   Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Nov 16   Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51 in the year 1831.  

Nov 17   In the year 1831 ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.  

Nov 19   On this day in history james A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)  

Nov 21   John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 in the year 1831.  

Nov 22   On this day in history opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)  

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Jan 01   In the year 1831 birth of william Joseph Westbrook, composer  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)  

Jan 11   James Ronald Chalmers, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 14   In the year 1831 birth of john Bullock Clark Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903  

Jan 17   Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903) was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 18   Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 20   On this day in history birth of pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)  

Jan 26   Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   On this day in history nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37  

Jan 06   In the year 1831 rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64  

Jan 08   On this day in history franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71  

Jan 21   Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 in the year 1831.  

Feb 05   On this day in history death of john CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29  

Feb 14   Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies in the year 1831.  

Mar 04   In the year 1831 georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82