1831

Year 1831 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * - - Revolts in, and the  are put down by n troops.
 * - succeeds  as the 254th.
 * -  marches into  and defeats and kills the warlord  in the.
 * - . rebel forces divide a n army.
 * - founded.
 * - The



April - June

 * - abdicates as  of  in favor of his son.
 * - . The fight another indecisive battle.

July - September

 * - Inauguration of, first king of the.
 * - invasion of . It is repelled by a  army.
 * - : Outbreak of in.
 * - - - The  take the  capital and crush resistance.

October - December

 * - Slave trading is forbidden in.
 * - embarks on his historic journey aboard the.
 * - is deeded to.

Undated

 *  newspaper is first published.
 * in.
 * in is founded.
 * in is founded as "The Athenaeum"

Births

 * Naser ad-Din Qajar, King of Herat (d. )

January - June

 * -, German postal union organizer (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, American inventor and industrialist (d. )
 * -, American automobile pioneer (d. )
 * -, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. )
 * -, American Confederate general (d. )
 * -, Scottish physicist (d. )
 * -, Austrian violinist (d. )

July - December

 * - of Japan (d. )
 * -, Russian-born author and theosophist (d. )
 * -, German-born automobile pioneer (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * - Emperor (d. )
 * -, Governor of California (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, German poet (b. )
 * -, Mexican revolutionary leader (b. )
 * -, Ethiopian Ras
 * -, n warlord
 * - (b. )
 * -, German writer (b. )
 * -, Russian admiral (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, King of Sardinia (b. )
 * -, French mathematician (b. )

July - December

 * -, 5th (b. )
 * -, Russian general (b. )
 * -, American writer (b. )
 * -, Prussian field marshal (b. )
 * -, American slave rebel (b. )
 * -, German philosopher (b. )
 * -, German military strategist (b. )


 * See also .