1831
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1828 1829 1830 - 1831 - 1832 1833 1834 |
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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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Events of 1831
- 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.
July 21:Léopold I of Belgium
- 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.
- May-June - Merthyr Rising 1831 - riots in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
- 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.
- 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.
- Founding of:
- Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut
- Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio (as "The Athenaeum")
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1831 MDCCCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2584 |
| Armenian calendar | 1280 ԹՎ ՌՄՁ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -13 – -12 |
| Berber calendar | 2781 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2375 |
| Burmese calendar | 1193 |
| Chinese calendar | 4467/4527-11-18 (庚寅年十一月十八日) — to —
4468/4528-11-28(辛卯年十一月廿八日) |
| 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 2 (天保2年) |
| Korean calendar | 4164 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2374 |
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- 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 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)
Deaths
- 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)
- June 27 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
- 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)
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