WHAT HAPPENED IN 1831.
Look what happened the 1831.

Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay. (14. February 1831)

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. (24. February 1831)

Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire. (25. February 1831)

The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria. (10. March 1831)

Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey. (29. March 1831)

D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV. (7. April 1831)

Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse. (12. April 1831)

The University of Alabama is founded. (18. April 1831)

James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole. (1. June 1831)

Samuel Francis Smith writes My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities. (4. July 1831)

Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians. (21. July 1831)

A new London Bridge opens. (1. August 1831)

French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution. (12. August 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. (13. August 1831)

Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion. (21. August 1831)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising. (22. August 1831)

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. (29. August 1831)

The high honor of 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. (1. September 1831)

William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (8. September 1831)

The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. (15. September 1831)