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1831 Calendar

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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.
•  March 10, 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
•  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.
•  July 21, 1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
•  August 21, 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
•  September 15, 1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
•  November 5, 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
•  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.

•  February 4, 1831 – Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
•  March 6, 1831 – Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
•  March 23, 1831 – Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
•  June 8, 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
•  July 8, 1831 – John Stith Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
•  July 17, 1831 – Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
•  August 12, 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist (d. 1891)
•  September 5, 1831 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (d. 1908)
•  October 6, 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
•  October 31, 1831 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)