Page 2: Historical Events In March - 31
Friday, 18 July 2025
1717 On March - 31 a sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1717 On this day in history florian Wrastill, composer
1722 On this day in history campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
1723 On this day in history frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
1727 Isaac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 on this day in history.
1732 On March - 31 the birth of Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer of symphonies and quartets
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, prominent composer of the classical period (The Creation/Die Schopfung) on this day in history.
1741 On this day in history peter Burmannus, [Peter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72
1745 On this day in history jews are expelled from Prague
1747 Johann A P Schulz, German composer on this day in history.
1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn't on this day in history.
1791 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer on March - 31.
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont", premieres in Weimar on March - 31.
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar on this day in history.
1808 On this day in history french created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1809 On this day in history edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
1811 On this day in history the birth of Robert Bunsen, German who invented the 'Bunsen' burner
1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner) on this day in history.
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France on March - 31.
1814 On March - 31 forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix on this day in history.
1822 Rafael Hernando, composer on March - 31.
1831 On March - 31 mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Québec and Montréal incorporated on this day in history.
1831 On March - 31 archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
1835 John La Farge, US painter on March - 31.
1837 On this day in history death of English landscape painter John Constable.
1837 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA on this day in history.
1837 John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 on this day in history.
1838 On March - 31 leon Dierx, French poet
1839 On this day in history nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
1840 John Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 on this day in history.
1841 First performance of Robert Schumann's first Symphony in B on March - 31.
1841 On this day in history 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »