1831

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Years: 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 - 1831 - 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836

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 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.
• 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.
• October 30 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
• 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.

Year in topic

• 1831 in literature
• 1831 in science

Births

• January 7 - Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal union and founder of the Universal postal union (+ 1897)
• January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (+ 1907)
• March 3 - George Pullman, inventor, industrialist
• March 6 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian (+ 1910)
• March 12 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
• June 28 - Joseph Joachim, violinist (+ 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.

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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