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1831
1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
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February-March - Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops
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February 20 - Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
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March 1 - Democrat Samuel Smith becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate until December 4
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March 9 – French Foreign Legion founded
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March 19 - City Bank of New York is the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).
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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 Ostrolenka . The Poles fight another indecisive battle.
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June 1 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
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July 21 - Inauguration of Leopold 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
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August 21 - Outbreak of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Approximately 55 whites stabbed, shot and clubbed to death.
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September 6-8 - Battle of Warsaw - The Russians take the Polish capital and crush resistance.
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September 22 - UK House of Commons passes the Reform Bill - it is later defeated in the House of Lords
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October 26 – Cholera epidemic begins in Sunderland, England
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October 30 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
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October 31 - Rioters burn down 100 houses in Bristol, UK - intervention by 14th Dragoons leads to death of hundreds
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November 11 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
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December 27 - Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
Births
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January 7 - Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal union and founder of the Universal postal union (d. 1897)
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January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodged , writer (d. 1907)
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March 3 - George Pullman, inventor, industrialist
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March 6 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh , theologian (d. 1910)
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March 12 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
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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, Confederate general (d. 1879)
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June 28 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
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July 22 - Emperor Komei of Japan
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12 August - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, author and theosophist
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September 18 - Siegfried Marcus, German-Austrian automobile pioneer (d.1898)
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October 6 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician.
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October 18 - Frederick III, German Emperor
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October 31 - Romualdo Pacheco, 12th Governor of California
Deaths
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January 21 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
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February 14 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero
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February 17 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
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April 27 - Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia
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June 27 - Sophie Germain, mathematician.
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July 4 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
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November 11 - Nat Turner, leader of slave revolt.
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November 14 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher.
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November 16 - Carl von Clausewitz, German strategist.
Last updated: 10-21-2005 14:54:07
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