1831 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1831?
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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