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 From Categories: births - deaths

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.
• April 21 - New York University is founded in New York City, New York.
• May 26 - Battle of Ostroleka. 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 Léopold 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 (d. 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)
• February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
• April 20 - John Abernethy (surgeon) (b. 1764)
• 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)
• August 24 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 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)
• Sabagadis - Ethiopian warlord