1831 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1831?
- February 14, 1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
- February 24, 1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
- March 10, 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
- March 29, 1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
- April 7, 1831 – D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
- April 12, 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
- April 18, 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
- July 4, 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
- July 21, 1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
- August 12, 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
- August 21, 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
- August 22, 1831 – Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
- August 29, 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- September 15, 1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- October 9, 1831 – Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
- November 5, 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- November 11, 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
- November 17, 1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
- December 5, 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
- December 31, 1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
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