Important Historical Events of the year 1831, Year 1831 in History

List of 1831 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1831

What happened in the year 1831?

Date Event
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.