Year by year · 19th century

1831

1831 in world history: 15 events, 8 births, 13 deaths, 3 states founded and 7 that came to an end. 1,083 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 11 November

    Nat Turner is hanged in Virginia

    Nat Turner was executed at Jerusalem, Virginia, for leading the August revolt in which about 55 to 60 white people were killed. Reprisals killed many more Black people, and southern states tightened slave codes.

    Virginia

  2. 27 December

    HMS Beagle sails with Charles Darwin aboard

    HMS Beagle left Plymouth on a surveying voyage with the 22-year-old naturalist Charles Darwin. His observations over the five-year journey shaped his later theory of evolution.

  3. Treaty

    Federal Pact

    The Federal Pact was an alliance signed in January 1831 by the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos against the Unitarian League of General José María Paz.

  4. Campaign

    Ten Days' Campaign

    The Ten Days' Campaign was the Dutch invasion of Belgium in August 1831, an attempt by King William I of the Netherlands to reverse the Belgian Revolution.

  5. Treaty · Peace

    Treaty of Peace (1831)

    The Treaty of Peace of 1831 was an agreement between the British and the Ashanti Empire following Ashanti defeat at the Battle of Katamanso in 1826.

  6. Battle

    Battle of La Ciudadela

    The Battle of La Ciudadela was fought on 4 November 1831 near San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina, where Juan Facundo Quiroga's Federalist army defeated the Unitarian forces of Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid.

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In the profiles

Wars and longer events

Born in 1831 8

Died in 1831 13

States founded 3

States that came to an end 7

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