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.
- 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.
- 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 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 24, 1831 – Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
- September 8, 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 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 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 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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