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 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.
Who Were Born On 1831?
- 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)