13th » Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God in Christianity called God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
21st » Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
29th » Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1831
1st » Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer (d. 1918)
12th » Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar (d. 1891)
16th » John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (d. 1901)
18th » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (d. 1931)
28th » Lucy Webb Hayes, American wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 20th List of First Ladies of the United States named First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
Famous Deaths for August 1831
23rd » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759)
23rd » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)