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' in the year 1831.   

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

Sep 08   In the year 1831 wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor)   

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

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

Sep 10   George Guest, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Sep 11   Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth in the year 1831.   

Sep 15   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Sep 26   On this day in history robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC   

Sep 27   Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

Sep 29   John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers) in the year 1831.   

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) in the year 1831.   

Oct 08   Michal Jelski, composer in the year 1831.   

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   Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona) in the year 1831.   

Oct 17   Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres in the year 1831.   

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

Oct 31   Daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 on this day in history.   

Nov 07   State Gran Colombia disbands in the year 1831.   

Nov 08   Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English under king of India on this day in history.   

Nov 11   In the year 1831 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   In the year 1831 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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of william Joseph Westbrook, composer   

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 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   Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899   

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

Jan 26   On this day in history birth of mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)   

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

Jan 06   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies   

Mar 04   Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.