1831
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This article is about the year 1831.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1828 1829 1830 – 1831 – 1832 1833 1834 |
| 1831 in topic: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
| By country |
| Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial Governors – State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1831 MDCCCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2584 |
| Armenian calendar | 1280 ԹՎ ՌՄՁ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6581 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -13–-12 |
| Bengali calendar | 1238 |
| Berber calendar | 2781 |
| British Regnal year | 1 Will. 4 – 2 Will. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2375 |
| Burmese calendar | 1193 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7339–7340 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年十一月十八日 (4467/4527-11-18) — to —
辛卯年十一月廿八日(4468/4528-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1547–1548 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1823–1824 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5591–5592 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1887–1888 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1753–1754 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4932–4933 |
| Holocene calendar | 11831 |
| Iranian calendar | 1209–1210 |
| Islamic calendar | 1246–1247 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 2 (天保2年) |
| Korean calendar | 4164 |
| Minguo calendar | 81 before ROC 民前81年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2374 |
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Year 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
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[edit] January–March
- January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.
- January 14 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame is first published by Victor Hugo.
- February–March – Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops.
- February 2 – Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII as the 254th pope.
- February 14 – Battle of Debre Abbay: Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis.
- February 20 – Battle of Grochow: Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
- March 10 – The French Foreign Legion is founded.
- March 29 – The Great Bosnian uprising against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
[edit] April–June
- April 7 – Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as emperor of Brazil in favor of his son Pedro II of Brazil.
- April 18 – University of Alabama founded
- April 27 – Charles Albert of Sardinia become king of Sardinia after the death of king Charles Felix of Sardinia
- May 26 – Battle of Ostroleka: The Poles fight another indecisive battle.
- May–June – Merthyr Rising 1831: Coal miners and others riot in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales for improved working conditions.
[edit] July–September
- July 21 – Léopold I of Belgium is inaugurated as first king of the Belgians.
- August 2 – The Dutch ten-day campaign in Belgium is halted by a French army.
- August 7 – American Baptist minister William Miller preaches his first sermon on the Second Advent of Christ in Dresden, New York, launching the Advent Movement in the United States.
- August 21 – USA: Nat Turner's slave rebellion breaks out in Southampton County, Virginia.
- September 6–September 8 – Battle of Warsaw: The Russians take the Polish capital and crush resistance.
[edit] October–December
- November 7 – Slave trading is forbidden in Brazil.
- December 27 – Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
- December 31 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
[edit] Date unknown
- The general assembly composed of deputies and senators elects an officer and two members to compose the Standing Triple regency.[where?]
- The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper is first published.
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt's French-trained forces occupy Syria.
- Rifa'a el-Tahtawi returns from study in Paris to Egypt.
- Founding of:
- Denison University in Granville, Ohio
- Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut
- New York University in New York City
- Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio (as "The Athenaeum")
[edit] Births
[edit] January–June
- January 7 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d. 1897)
- January 8 – John Stith Pemberton, Inventor of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
- February 24 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
- March 3 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
- March 12 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer (d. 1901)
- March 16 – Elise Hwasser, Swedish artist (d. 1894)
- March 20 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881)
- June 1 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
- June 2 – Jan Gerard Palm, composer (d. 1906)
- June 13 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
- June 28 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
[edit] July–December
- July 22 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (d. 1867)
- August 12 – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (d. 1891)
- September 18 – Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1898)
- September 20 – Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
- October 6 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
- October 18 – Emperor Frederick III of Germany (d. 1888)
- October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh, American paleontologist (d. 1899)
- October 31 – Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (d. 1899)
- November 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th United States President (d. 1881)
- November 26 – Anna Leonowens, Anna of The King and I
- December 19 – Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian aliʻi
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 21 – Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
- February 14
- Vicente Guerrero, President of Mexico, Independence War hero (b. 1782)
- Marye of Yejju, Ethiopian Ras
- Sabagadis, Ethiopian warlord
- February 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1785)
- February 25 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
- April 5 – Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (b. 1763)
- April 20 – John Abernethy (surgeon) (b. 1764)
- April 27 – Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b. 1765)
- April 30 – Collet Barker, British military officer and explorer (b. 1784)
- June 27 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
[edit] July–December
- July 4 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
- July 16 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
- 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)
- December 26 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian Poet (b. 1809)
