Historical Events In 1831

Sep 01   Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle on this day in history.  

Sep 05   The birth of Victorien Sardou, French playwright; author of 'La Tosca' in the year 1831.  

Sep 06   In the year 1831 johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49  

Sep 08   Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor) on this day in history.  

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

Sep 08   William IV is crowned King of Great Britain in the year 1831.  

Sep 10   In the year 1831 george Guest, composer, dies at 60  

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

Sep 15   In the year 1831 the locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.  

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

Sep 26   In the year 1831 robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC  

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) in the year 1831.  

Oct 01   Claudius Charles Wilson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on this day in history.  

Oct 06   J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers) in the year 1831.  

Oct 08   In the year 1831 michal Jelski, composer  

Oct 09   In the year 1831 capo d'Istria is assassinated.  

Oct 09   In the year 1831 joannis Capodistrias, Pres of Greece (1829-31), murdered  

Oct 15   In the year 1831 helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)  

Oct 17   In the year 1831 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   Daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 in the year 1831.  

Nov 07   State Gran Colombia disbands on this day in history.  

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

Nov 11   Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA in the year 1831.  

Nov 12   Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist on this day in history.  

Nov 13   James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity) in the year 1831.  

Nov 14   On this day in history ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74  

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

Nov 16   In the year 1831 karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51  

Nov 17   Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia on this day in history.  

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

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

Nov 22   In the year 1831 opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)  

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Jan 01   William Joseph Westbrook, composer was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 02   Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) was born in the year 1831.  

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

Jan 14   John Bullock Clark Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)  

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

Jan 20   Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa) was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 26   Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) was born in the year 1831.  

Jan 04   Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 08   Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1831.  

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

Feb 05   John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29 died on this day in history.  

Feb 14   Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies in the year 1831.  

Feb 15   Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies on this day in history.  

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