1831

Year '1831' ('MDCCCXXXI') was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1831

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1831

January - March

★ 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 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.

★ February 20 - Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.

★ March 10 - French Foreign Legion founded.

★ March 29 - The Great Bosnian uprising

April - June

★ April 7 - Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as emperor of Brazil in favor of his son Pedro II of Brazil.

★ May 26 - Battle of Ostroleka. The Poles fight another indecisive battle.

July - September

★ 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 (ten-day campaign).

★ August 21 - USA: Outbreak of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.

★ September 6-8 - Battle of Warsaw - The Russians take the Polish capital and crush resistance.

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.

Undated

★ ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' newspaper is first published.

★ Cholera in Hamburg.

★ Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut is founded.

★ Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio is founded as "The Athenaeum"

Births

January - June

★ January 7 - Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d. 1897)

★ 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 20 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881)

★ June 1 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)

★ June 13 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)

★ June 28 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)

July - December

★ July 22 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (d. 1867)

★ 12 August - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (d. 1891)

★ September 18 - Siegfried Marcus, German-born 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)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 21 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)

★ February 14 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary leader (b. 1782)

★ February 14 - Marye of Yejju, Ethiopian Ras

★ February 14 - 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)

★ June 27 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)

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)

★ July 26 - Rodney S. Phillips, American writer (b. 1810)

★ 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)
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