Today in History for Year 1831

Months in Year 1831: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 56 of 56

Jan 1st - William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
Jan 2nd - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
Jan 3rd - 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
Jan 15th - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
Jan 15th - 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC
Jan 22nd - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
Feb 5th - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
Feb 7th - Belgium adopts it's Constitution
Feb 14th - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
Feb 19th - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
Feb 20th - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
Mar 2nd - John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
Mar 6th - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy
Mar 6th - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
Mar 10th - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
Mar 19th - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
Mar 29th - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
Mar 31st - Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
Mar 31st - Quebec & Montreal incorporated
Naturalist Charles Darwin Apr 7th - Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
Apr 9th - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
Apr 14th - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
Jun 4th - National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
Jun 6th - 2nd national black convention (Phila)
Jul 1st - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
Jul 4th - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
Jul 21st - Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
Aug 1st - London Bridge opens to traffic
Aug 2nd - Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
Aug 8th - Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army
Aug 9th - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
Aug 10th - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
Aug 10th - Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
Aug 12th - Dutch troops conquer Leuven
Aug 12th - Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
Aug 21st - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
Aug 24th - John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
Aug 29th - Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
Aug 30th - Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
Sep 1st - Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
Sep 8th - William IV is crowned King of Great Britain.
Sep 11th - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
Sep 15th - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Sep 26th - Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC
Oct 9th - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Ist Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion.
Oct 17th - Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres
Nov 7th - State Gran Colombia disbands
Nov 17th - Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
Nov 22nd - Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
Dec 1st - Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
Dec 5th - Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
Dec 10th - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
Dec 25th - Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
Dec 26th - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
Dec 27th - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America
Dec 31st - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 89 of 89

Jan 1st - William Joseph Westbrook, composer
Jan 2nd - Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
Jan 11th - James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Jan 14th - John Bullock Clark Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
Jan 17th - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
Jan 18th - Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Jan 20th - Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)
Jan 26th - Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
Jan 28th - Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Feb 3rd - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
Feb 4th - Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Feb 12th - John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
Feb 13th - John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
Feb 16th - Nikolai Leskow, writer
Feb 17th - Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer
Feb 21st - Eduard Rappoldi, composer
Feb 23rd - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
Feb 24th - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
Feb 26th - Filippo Marchetti, composer
Feb 27th - Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
Mar 1st - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Mar 3rd - George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car)
Mar 6th - Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
Mar 6th - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
Mar 7th - John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen
Mar 12th - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
Mar 14th - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
Mar 15th - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Mar 15th - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
Mar 20th - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
Mar 23rd - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
Mar 29th - Amelia Barr, writer
Mar 31st - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
Apr 4th - Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Apr 8th - Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet
Apr 12th - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor
Apr 12th - George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Apr 12th - Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 14th - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
Apr 22nd - Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers)
May 1st - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
May 13th - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
May 16th - David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
May 24th - Richard Hoffman, composer
May 28th - Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
Jun 1st - John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Jun 2nd - Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law
Jun 2nd - Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
Jun 3rd - Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Jun 5th - Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922
Jun 7th - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
Jun 8th - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
Jun 10th - W A Remy, composer
Jun 13th - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory, speed of light)
Jun 26th - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace)
Jun 28th - Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
Jun 29th - William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Jul 9th - Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer
Jul 14th - William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
Jul 17th - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
Jul 30th - Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
Aug 13th - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
Aug 16th - Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Aug 16th - John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
Aug 19th - Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 28th - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer
Aug 28th - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
Sep 7th - Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
Sep 8th - Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor)
Sep 29th - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
Oct 1st - Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Oct 6th - J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
Oct 8th - Michal Jelski, composer
Oct 15th - Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)
Oct 18th - Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
Oct 31st - Daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
Oct 31st - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
Nov 8th - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
Nov 12th - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist
Nov 19th - James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
Nov 21st - John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Dec 6th - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Dec 10th - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
Dec 19th - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
Dec 22nd - Mark Rutherford, writer
Dec 22nd - Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
Dec 25th - Johann Herbeck, composer
Dec 27th - Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
Dec 29th - Adam Badeau, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 54 of 54

Jan 4th - Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37
Jan 6th - Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64
Jan 8th - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71
Jan 21st - Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49
Feb 5th - John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29
Feb 14th - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies
Feb 15th - Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies
Mar 4th - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
Mar 9th - Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
Mar 12th - Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
Mar 26th - Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
Apr 2nd - Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74
Apr 13th - Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80
Apr 19th - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
Apr 20th - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
May 1st - Antonius van Alphen, apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at 82
May 5th - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65
May 13th - Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74
May 24th - Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62
May 26th - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
May 26th - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
May 27th - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
May 31st - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
Jun 8th - Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75
Jun 10th - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
Jun 15th - Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78
Jun 16th - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
Jun 27th - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
Jul 4th - James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
Jul 16th - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
Jul 18th - Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72
Jul 21st - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55
Jul 24th - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
Aug 16th - Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
Aug 22nd - John White, composer, dies at 52
Aug 23rd - August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70
Sep 6th - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49
Sep 8th - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
Sep 10th - George Guest, composer, dies at 60
Sep 18th - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60
Sep 27th - Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91
Sep 27th - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
Oct 9th - Ioannis Kapodistrias, President (1829-31) and founding father of modern Greece.
Oct 14th - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
Nov 11th - Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA
Nov 14th - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74
Nov 15th - Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76
Nov 16th - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
Dec 2nd - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer, dies at 56
Dec 8th - James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies
Dec 10th - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
Dec 11th - John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55
Dec 15th - Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60
Dec 18th - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75