1831 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1831?
- 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 18, 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
- June 1, 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
- 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 1, 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
- August 12, 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
- August 13, 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
- August 21, 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
- August 24, 1831 – Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
- August 29, 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- September 8, 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- October 9, 1831 – Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
- October 30, 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 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.
- December 5, 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
- December 27, 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
- December 31, 1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
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