WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1831
Find out what all happened May to 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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

A new London Bridge opens. (1. 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)

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

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