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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
121: *[[Romolo Gessi]] ( (1831, 1881)), Italian explorer of the [[Nile]] and of ...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
41: *[[Leopold Ackermann|Ackermann, Leopold]] (1771-1831) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ...a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's ...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
3: ...''' ([[April 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ...at age thirteen, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's profes...
17: ...sions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of other members.
21: ...ticity theory]]. One significant item is the concept of the [[Sophie Germain prime]], which is a [[pri...
23: ...t she died of [[breast cancer]] on [[June 27]], [[1831]]. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) <small>([[August 12]], [[1831]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]))</small> - [[May ...
9: ...t of nothing. Though she was apparently quite adept at these feats, her interests were more in the ar...
15: ...mpting to translate the divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric...
69: ... have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe an... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
23: ...lar service in the world, but John Bull, built in 1831, is currently the oldest operable steam locomotiv...
34: ...00 kW) without breaking, despite a number of attempts to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is...
49: A variant of the Intercity 125, the XPT, is in service on [[New South Wales]] railways in...
63: ... to the [[turboshaft]] engines in a turbine helicopter) driving an output shaft. The normal method of ... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1831]]
18: ...''' ([[April 28]], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[Pres...
30: ...cretary of State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both...
38: ...ropean Power." Some 20 years after Monroe died in 1831, this became known as the Monroe Doctrine.
42: ...t failure]] and [[tuberculosis]] on [[July 4]], [[1831]]; 55 years after the [[Declaration of Independen... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
77: ...th the 22nd Congress, serving from [[March 4]], [[1831]], until his death. He was chairman of the Commit...
120: ...after=[[John Reed (politician)|John Reed]]| years=1831-1833}} - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: ...d the [[Continental Army]] as a courier. He was captured and imprisoned by the [[British]] in the [[Am...
32: ...is [[U.S. presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democ...
43: ...of the U.S. economy, but Jackson opposed the concept on ideological grounds. In Jackson's opinion, the...
55: ...rable powers for the central government) and attempted to face Calhoun down over the issue, which deve...
67: ==Assassination attempt== - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
3: ...><font size="+1">'''Martin van Buren'''</font></caption>
41: ...es of America|vice-president]]; but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed...
43: ...te|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargain" charge. At the same time he opposed int...
53: ...er to [[England]], and arrived in [[London]] in September. He was cordially received, but in February ...
55: ... which existed in many states. No platform was adopted, the widespread popularity of Jackson being rel... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...c D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to b...
15: ...ict of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}}
16: ...[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after=[[Samuel McKean]]|years=1831-1833}} - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
53: ...ongresses ([[March 4]], [[1821]] - [[March 3]], [[1831]]). He was chairman of the Committee on the Judi...
57: ...], and resigned on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Comm...
66: ...his appointments and persuading the people to accept constitutional law as the Supreme Court interpret...
72: ...ly, Congress voted to call a new vote on the Lecompton constitution, a move which infuriated Southerne...
78: ...e appeared on no southern ballot. Rather than accept a Republican administration, the southern "fire-e... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
62: ...e British colony known as [[British Guiana]] in [[1831]].
126: ... It is so similar that Guyana is included and accepted as a Caribbean Nation. Only its geographical lo...
140: <CAPTION><font size="+1">'''Holidays'''</font></caption> - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
35: ... BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
40: * [[Cement]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
41: ... River [[boat]]s in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
14: ...ary of State]], which Jackson calls their "[[Corrupt Bargain]]"
28: *[[1831]] - [[Nat Turner]]'s revolt
29: *[[1831]] - ''[[The Liberator]]'' begins publication
30: *[[1831]] - [[Cyrus McCormick]] invents the [[reaper]]
101: *[[1857]] - [[LeCompton Constitution]] rejected in [[Kansas Territory]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
17: |valign=center|'''[[1831]]'''
19: ...Nat Turner]] leads a [[slave revolt]] in [[Southampton County, Virginia]]. <br>
33: ...epresentatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] adopts a gag rule, by which all antislavery petitions p...
77: ...he industrializing North. Starting with the bankruptcy of the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insuran...
88: ...slavery [[Lecompton Constitution]] is signed in September. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
36: ...tionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
143: | <small>[[21 July]] [[230]] to [[28 September]] [[235]]</small>
179: ...artyr, through extreme hardship; feast day [[16 September]]</small>
279: | <small>[[17 May]] [[352]] to [[24 September]] [[366]]</small>
321: ...28 December|28]]/[[29 December]] [[418]] to [[4 September]] [[422]]</small> - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...turning to Sweden with his father after the bankruptcy of their family business, devoted himself to th...
7: ...rinted when he was dying, and the whole stock except three copies was destroyed immediately after his ...
29: ...rection" (Swedish ''i idealisk riktning''), is cryptic and has caused much consternation. For many yea... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...]] in the [[19th century]] [[United States]] attempted to escape to [[free state]]s, or as far north a...
4: ...eventually escape. The Underground Railroad has captured public imagination as a symbol of [[freedom]]...
10: ... such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, newspapers, and other organs dissem...
21: ...times hiding them in his Philadelphia home. He kept careful records, including short biographies of t...
23: ...the regular train station in an attempt to intercept the runaways, while Still was able to meet them a...
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