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* [[January 30]]: Furnace master [[Moses Stroup]] married [[Permelia Richards]]. | * [[January 30]]: Furnace master [[Moses Stroup]] married [[Permelia Richards]]. | ||
* Merchant [[Campbell Wallace]] married Susan Lyon. | |||
=== Deaths === | === Deaths === |
Latest revision as of 11:54, 16 October 2014
1831 was 40 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 12th year of Alabama statehood.
Events
- March 3: Samuel B. Moore succeeded Gabriel Moore as Governor at Moore's election to the U. S. Senate.
- April 18: The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa opened to students with Alva Woods as its first president.
- November 26: John Gayle succeeded Samuel B. Moore as Governor.
- Farmer Samuel Fields was granted an 80-acre tract around present-day Brookside.
Works
Buildings
Individuals
- William Browne came to Alabama.
- William Mudd moved to Alabama and settled at Elyton.
Births
- August 31: John Terry, attorney
- January 17: George R. Ward, innkeeper
Marriages
- January 30: Furnace master Moses Stroup married Permelia Richards.
- Merchant Campbell Wallace married Susan Lyon.
Deaths
- August 23: Burrell Bass, first settler of Roebuck Springs
- Daniel Hillman, blacksmith
Context
In 1831, abolitionist newspaper The Liberator began publication. The Hunchback of Notre Dame was first published by Victor Hugo. Pope Gregory XVI succeeded Pope Pius VIII, who had died the previous year. The French Foreign Legion was founded. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper began publication. Nat Turner's slave rebellion took place in Virginia. Charles Darwin embarked on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
Notable births included Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton, inventor and industrialist George Pullman, wagon and carriage manufacturer Clement Studebaker, Confederate general John Bell Hood, physicist James Clerk Maxwell, mathematician Richard Dedekind, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, President James A. Garfield, and educator Anna Leonowens. Notable deaths included Mexican independence hero Vicente Guerrero, mathematician Sophie Germain, former president James Monroe, and slave rebel Nat Turner.
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