Page 2: Historical Events In March - 31
Wednesday, 26 March 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 March - 31 campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
1723 On March - 31 frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
1727 On this day in history isaac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
1732 The birth of Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer of symphonies and quartets on March - 31.
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, prominent composer of the classical period (The Creation/Die Schopfung) on this day in history.
1741 Peter Burmannus, [Peter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague on this day in history.
1747 On March - 31 johann A P Schulz, German composer
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 this day in history.
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont", premieres in Weimar on March - 31.
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar on March - 31.
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 On March - 31 robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France on this day in history.
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris on March - 31.
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 On this day in history rafael Hernando, composer
1831 On this day in history mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Québec and Montréal incorporated on this day in history.
1831 On this day in history 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 March - 31.
1837 John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 on this day in history.
1838 Leon Dierx, French poet on this day in history.
1839 On this day in history nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
1840 On March - 31 john Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1841 On this day in history first performance of Robert Schumann's first Symphony in B
1841 On March - 31 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
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