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What Happened in November 1831

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Historical Events

  • Nov 7 State of Gran Colombia disbands
  • Nov 17 Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia
  • Nov 21 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Robert le diable" (Robert the Devil) premieres at the Paris Opéra
Events in 1831

Famous Birthdays

  • Nov 3 Ignatius Donnelly, American politician, writer, and amateur scientist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
  • Nov 8 Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880) (d. 1891)
  • Nov 12 Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austrian botanist (d. 1898)

James Garfield (1831-1881)

Nov 19 20th US President (Republican: 1881), born in Moreland Hills, Ohio

James Garfield
  • Nov 21 John Franklin Miller, American lawyer, businessman, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 1886)
Born in 1831

Famous Deaths

Nat Turner (1800-1831)

Nov 11 American leader of a major slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831, hanged at 31

Nat Turner
  • Nov 14 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and inventor (dialectic), dies at 61
  • Nov 14 Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder, dies at 74
  • Nov 15 Vincenc Mašek, Bohemian composer, dies at 76
  • Nov 16 Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian army General (Napoleanic Wars) and military theorist (Vom Kriege (On War)), dies of cholera at 51


What Happened in 1831

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