Page 5: 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' on this day in history.   

Sep 06   Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49 in the year 1831.   

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

Sep 08   On this day in history william IV crowned King of Britain   

Sep 08   On this day in history william IV is crowned King of Great Britain.   

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

Sep 27   On this day in history henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91   

Sep 29   In the year 1831 john McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)   

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

Oct 06   On this day in history j W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)   

Oct 08   Michal Jelski, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 09   On this day in history capo d'Istria is assassinated.   

Oct 09   Joannis Capodistrias, Pres of Greece (1829-31), murdered in the year 1831.   

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

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

Oct 18   Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia in the year 1831.   

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

Nov 07   State Gran Colombia disbands in the year 1831.   

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

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

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   In the year 1831 vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76   

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

Nov 17   On this day in history ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.   

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

Nov 21   On this day in history john Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886   

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

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of james Ronald Chalmers, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898   

Jan 14   John Bullock Clark Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 in the year 1831.   

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   In the year 1831 achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49   

Feb 05   John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29 died in the year 1831.   

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