1831
1831 was a
common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
*February-March - Revolts in
Modena,
Parma and the
Papal States are put down by
Austrian troops.
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February 14 -
Ras Marye of Yejju marches into
Tigray and defeats and kills the warlord
Sabagadis in the
Battle of Debre Abbay.
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February 20 -
Battle of Grochow.
Polish rebel forces divide a
Russian army.
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March 10 -
French Foreign Legion founded.
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March 29 - The
Great Bosnian uprising*
April 7 -
Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as
emperor of
Brazil in favor of his son
Pedro II of Brazil.
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May 26 -
Battle of Ostroleka. The
Poles fight another indecisive battle.
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July 21 - Inauguration of
Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the
Belgians.
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August 2 -
Dutch invasion of
Belgium. It is repelled by a
French army (ten-day campaign).
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August 21 -
USA: Outbreak of
Nat Turner's slave rebellion in
Southampton County, Virginia.
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September 6-
8 -
Battle of Warsaw - The
Russians take the
Polish capital and crush resistance.
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December 27 -
Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the
HMS Beagle.
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December 31 -
Gramercy Park is deeded to
New York City.
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper is first published.
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Cholera in
Hamburg.
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January 7 -
Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d.
1897)
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February 24 -
Leo von Caprivi,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1899)
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March 3 -
George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d.
1897)
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March 12 -
Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer (d.
1901)
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March 20 -
Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d.
1881)
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June 1 -
John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d.
1879)
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June 13 -
James Clark Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d.
1879)
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June 28 -
Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d.
1907)
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July 22 -
Emperor Komei of Japan (d.
1867)
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12 August -
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (d.
1891)
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September 18 -
Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d.
1898)
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October 6 -
Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d.
1916)
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October 18 - Emperor
Frederick III of Germany (d.
1888)
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October 31 -
Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (d.
1899)
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January 21 -
Achim von Arnim, German poet (b.
1781)
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February 14 -
Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary leader (b.
1782)
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February 14 -
Marye of Yejju, Ethiopian Ras
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February 14 -
Sabagadis,
Ethiopian warlord
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February 17 -
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b.
1785)
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February 25 -
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b.
1752)
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April 5 -
Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (b.
1763)
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April 20 -
John Abernethy (surgeon) (b.
1764)
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April 27 -
Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b.
1765)
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June 27 -
Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b.
1776)
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July 4 -
James Monroe, 5th
President of the United States (b.
1758)
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July 16 -
Louis Alexandre Andrault Graf Langeron, Russian general (b.
1763)
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August 24 -
August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b.
1760)
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November 11 -
Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b.
1800)
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November 14 -
Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b.
1770)
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November 16 -
Carl von Clausewitz, German military strategist (b.
1780)
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1831 in the United Kingdom
