1831
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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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[edit] Events of 1831
[edit] 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
Léopold I of Belgium
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
- September 6-8 - 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] Undated
- The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper is first published.
- Cholera in Hamburg.
- Wesleyan University in Middletown is founded.
- Xavier University in Cincinnati is founded as "The Athenaeum"
[edit] Births
- Naser ad-Din Qajar, King of Herat (d. 1896)
| Gregorian calendar | 1831 MDCCCXXXI
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| Ab urbe condita | 2584 |
| Armenian calendar | 1280 ԹՎ ՌՄՁ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -13 – -12 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2375 |
| Coptic calendar | 1547 – 1548 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1823 – 1824 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5591 – 5592 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1886 – 1887 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1753 – 1754 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4932 – 4933 |
| Holocene calendar | 11831 |
| Iranian calendar | 1209 – 1210 |
| Islamic calendar | 1246 – 1247 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2491 (皇紀2491年) |
| Julian calendar | 1876 |
| Korean calendar | 4164 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2374 |
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
- See also 1831 births.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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 (b. 1785)
- February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
- April 5 - Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (b. 1763)
- April 20 - John Abernethy (b. 1764)
- April 27 - Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b. 1765)
- 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)
- 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)
[edit] People of the year 1831 at Familypedia
23 people were born in 1831
8 children were born to the 9 women born in 1831
10 people died in 1831
1134 people lived in 1831
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