Historical Events In 1831

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sep 11   In the year 1831 charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth  

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

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

Sep 26   Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC in the year 1831.  

Sep 27   In the year 1831 henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91  

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   In the year 1831 michal Jelski, composer  

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

Oct 09   Joannis Capodistrias, Pres of Greece (1829-31), murdered on this day in history.  

Oct 15   On this day in history helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)  

Oct 17   Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres on this day in history.  

Oct 18   On this day in history frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia  

Oct 31   On this day in history daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901  

Nov 07   On this day in history state Gran Colombia disbands  

Nov 08   On this day in history edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English under king of India  

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

Nov 12   In the year 1831 anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist  

Nov 13   In the year 1831 james Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)  

Nov 14   Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Nov 15   On this day in history vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76  

Nov 16   On this day in history 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   John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on this day in history.  

Nov 22   Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris) in the year 1831.  

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

Jan 02   In the year 1831 birth of justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)  

Jan 11   James Ronald Chalmers, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 was born on this day in history.  

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of john Bullock Clark Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903  

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   In the year 1831 birth of pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)  

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   Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64 in the year 1831.  

Jan 08   Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Jan 21   Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

Feb 05   In the year 1831 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 on this day in history.  

Mar 04   Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82 in the year 1831.