WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1831
Find out what all happened August to December 1831

Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia. (17. November 1831)

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

Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated. (9. October 1831)

Gramercy Park is deeded to New York, New York. (31. December 1831)

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

Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. (5. November 1831)

In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. (30. October 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)

Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. (5. December 1831)

Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution. (27. December 1831)

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

In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. (11. November 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)

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

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