List of 1831 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1831
Date | Event |
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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. |
March 10, 1831 | The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France. |
March 19, 1831 | First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars stole $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street. |
March 29, 1831 | Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey. |
April 7, 1831 | Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil. |
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 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. |
June 1, 1831 | James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole. |
July 4, 1831 | Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities. |
July 13, 1831 | Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania. |
July 20, 1831 | Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River. |
July 21, 1831 | Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians. |
August 8, 1831 | Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in Ohio in exchange for land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Wapakoneta. |
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 in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks. |
August 23, 1831 | Nat Turner's rebellion of enslaved Virginians is suppressed. |
August 29, 1831 | Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. |
September 1, 1831 | The Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic. |
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 8, 1831 | November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection. |
October 9, 1831 | Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of the Kingdom of Greece, is assassinated. |
October 30, 1831 | Nat Turner is 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 Gran Colombia. |
December 5, 1831 | Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. |
December 25, 1831 | The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom. |
December 27, 1831 | Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution. |
December 31, 1831 | Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City. |