* 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God.

* 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.

Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

* 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

* 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.

* 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

* November 11 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel ( b. 1800 )

Despite white attempts to control independent black congregations, especially after the Nat Turner Uprising of 1831, a number of black congregations managed to maintain their separation as independent congregations in Baptist associations.

They were reading the Red Book but didn't know who Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, and Nat Turner were.

* 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

Three of the best known in the United States during the 19th century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

Resulting in the hanging of about eighteen slaves, including Nat Turner himself.

Nathaniel " Nat " Turner ( October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831 ) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.

Nat Turner only confessed to killing one of the rebellion's victims, Margret Whitehead, whom he killed with a blow from a fence post.

The capture of Nat Turner

After Turner's execution, a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, took it upon himself to publish " The Confessions of Nat Turner ", derived partly from research done while Turner was in hiding and partly from jailhouse conversations with Turner before trial.

This work is the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner.

Before the Nat Turner Revolt, there was a small but ineffectual antislavery movement in Virginia, largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820s and fears among whites of the rising number of blacks, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions.

Nevertheless, fears of repetitions of the Nat Turner Revolt polarized moderates and slave owners across the South.

In terms of public response and loss of white lives, slaveholders in the Upper South and coastal states were deeply shocked by the Nat Turner Rebellion.

Looking back, Nat Turner remains an " enigmatic and controversial figure ", according to former University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen B. Oates, given that Turner fought for the just anti-slavery cause but he proceeded in acts of violence against women and children that would today be considered as war crimes or terrorism.

* Nat Turner is mentioned in the song " The City " by the Wu-Tang Clan off their album Wu-Tang Forever.

The park is named in honor of Nat Turner and his struggle for freedom.

* Nat Turner is mentioned in the song " The Point of No Return " by Immortal Technique on the album Revolutionary Vol.

* Nat Turner is mentioned in the song " Born Fe Rebel " by Steel Pulse.

* The Letter Writer by Ann Rinaldi is a work of historical fiction that tells of Nat Turner's uprising.

* Nat Turner is mentioned in the song " Ah Yeah " by KRS-One.

* Nat Turner is mentioned in the song " Somebody's Gotta Do It '" by The Roots on their 2004 album The Tipping Point

* On Hell Razah's song " Rebel Music ", Nat Turner is mentioned in verse: " Black queens havin ' seeds while she's strung on dope / I resurrected Nat Turner with this song that I wrote ".

* On Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Gil Scott-Heron's track " Comment # 1 ", in which Nat Turner is mentioned, is part of Track 13: " Who Will Survive in America ".

* Nat Turner is mentioned in Public Enemy's " Prophets of Rage ," on their album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

* Nat Turner is also brought up in the book, Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl.

* Nat Turner is the subject of the book The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses: A Novel and its sequel by Sharon E Foster, written in 2011.

" Nat King Cole's hit recording is now a Christmas standard.

Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey.

) Despite this joke, Nat Hentoff reported that when he spoke to Ellington about the subject, he was " angrier than I'd ever seen him before ," and Ellington said, " I'm hardly surprised that my kind of music is still without, let us say, official honor at home.

Legendary Revolutionary War scout and Indian fighter Nat Foster, who is a possible inspiration for Cooper's " Natty Bumpoo " was buried in a family plot just west of Ava Corners on the West Ava Road, a modern marker placed there in 1937 by Rev.

Oklahoma City was a major stop on Route 66 during the early part of the 20th century ; it was prominently mentioned in Bobby Troup's 1946 jazz classic, "( Get Your Kicks on ) Route 66 ", later made famous by Nat King Cole.

* Philadelphia MC Reef the Lost Cauze put out a song called " Nat Turner " on his album A Vicious Cycle.

The " Lost April " song that features in the film had lyrics written for it with the song being recorded by Nat King Cole.

Written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, the song was recorded by The Four Aces and also by Jerry Vale, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, among others.

He presented Domino alone at his piano singing as if he were a young Nat ' King ' Cole or Fats Waller, and he " had Fats stand up during the last verse of the song to reveal his pudgy figure.

The movie stars Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, who won an Oscar for his dual role, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, and singers Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who together perform the movie's theme song.

*" Rio Rita " by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, vocal Lewis James ; title song of the musical Rio Rita

Her recording of " Nature Boy " from April 8, 1948, became a hit around the same time as the release of the famous Nat King Cole recording of the same song.

Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).

It featured a theme song entitled " Lady Divine " with lyrics by Richard Kountz and music by Nathaniel ( Nat ) Shilkret.

The song became a popular hit in 1929 and was recorded by numerous artists such as Nat Shilkret, Frank Munn, Ben Selvin ( as The Cavaliers ), Smith Ballew, Adrian Schubert, Sam Lanin and Bob Haring.

" DeLugg often played a song he wrote with Stein, " Orange Colored Sky ", which became a hit for Nat King Cole.

He often played a song he co-wrote, titled, " Orange Colored Sky ", which was best remembered as a hit for Nat King Cole.

*" Ramblin ' Rose ", a 1962 song popularized by Nat King Cole and incorporated in an album of the same name

Nat King Cole recorded a song with the same melody entitled Katusha.