1831 Calendar
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1831 Historical Event(s)
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.
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 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.
November 11, 1831
– In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
December 27, 1831
– Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
Who Were Born On 1831?
January 17, 1831
– Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
January 22, 1831
– Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917)
February 16, 1831
– Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (d. 1895)
March 6, 1831
– Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
May 16, 1831
– David E. Hughes, British inventor and musician (d. 1900)
June 1, 1831
– John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
August 16, 1831
– John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
September 7, 1831
– Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
September 20, 1831
– Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
October 18, 1831
– Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (d. 1888)