1831 - What happened in 1831 ?

February 1831

Thursday 24:

The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.

March 1831

Thursday 10:

The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

Saturday 19:

The City Bank of New York becomes the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).

April 1831

Thursday 07:

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil abdicates in favor of his son, Pedro II.

June 1831

Wednesday 01:

James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.

July 1831

Monday 04:

James Monroe dies on the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Thursday 21:

Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.

August 1831

Monday 01:

London Bridge opens.

Sunday 21:

Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia

Wednesday 24:

Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.

September 1831

Thursday 08:

William IV was crowned King of Great Britain.

Thursday 15:

The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

October 1831

Sunday 09:

Capo d'Istria was assassinated.

Sunday 30:

In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.

November 1831

Friday 11:

In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

December 1831

Monday 05:

Former US President John Quincy Adams takes a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Tuesday 27:

Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution.