1831

Years:
1828 1829 1830 – 1831 – 1832 1833 1834

Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s 1860s

Centuries:
18th century – 19th century – 20th century

1831 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Rail transport - Science - South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

February-March – Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops
February 20 – Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
March 1 – Democrat Samuel Smith becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate until December 4
March 9 – French Foreign Legion founded
March 19 – City Bank of New York is the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).
April 7 – Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as emperor of Brazil in favor of his son Pedro II of Brazil.
May 26 – Battle of Ostrolenka. The Poles fight another indecisive battle.
June 1 – James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
July 21 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians
August 2 – Dutch invasion of Belgium. It is repelled by a French army
August 21 – Outbreak of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Approximately 55 whites stabbed, shot and clubbed to death.
September 6-8 – Battle of Warsaw – The Russians take the Polish capital and crush resistance.
September 22 – UK House of Commons passes the Reform Bill – it is later defeated in the House of Lords
October 26 – Cholera epidemic begins in Sunderland, England
October 30 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
October 31 – Rioters burn down 100 houses in Bristol, UK – intervention by 14th Dragoons leads to death of hundreds
November 11 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
December 27 – Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.

The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper is first published.
Cholera in Hamburg

Births

January 7 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d. 1897)
January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (d. 1907)
March 3 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1897)
March 6 – Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian (d. 1910)
March 12 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer (d. 1901)
March 20 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881)
June 1 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
June 13 – James Clark Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
June 28 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
July 22 – Emperor Komei of Japan (d. 1867)
12 August – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (d. 1891)
September 18 – Siegfried Marcus, German-Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1898)
October 6 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
October 18 – Emperor Frederick III of Germany (d. 1888)
October 31 – Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (d. 1899)

Deaths

January 21 – Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
February 14 – Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary leader (b. 1782)
February 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1785)
April 27 – Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b. 1765)
June 27 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
July 4 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
November 11 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
November 14 – Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
November 16 – Carl von Clausewitz, German military strategist (b. 1780)

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