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 art 1831 in literature 1831 in science 1831 in music 1831 in sports List of state leaders in 1831 List of religious leaders in 1831

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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, organizer of the German postal union and founder of the Universal postal union (d. 1897)
January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (d. 1907)
March 3 - George Pullman, inventor, industrialist
March 6 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian (d. 1910)
March 12 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
March 20 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881)
June 28 - Joseph Joachim, violinist (d. 1907)
October 6 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician.
October 18 - Frederick III, German Emperor
Emperor Komei of Japan

Deaths

February 14 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero
February 17 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
April 27 - Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia
July 4 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
November 11 - Nat Turner, leader of slave revolt.
November 14 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher.
November 16 - Carl von Clausewitz, German strategist.