In history, year 1831 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1831.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 24 february | The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek between the Choctaw and the United States government, the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. |
| 12 april | The Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, collapsed, reportedly owing to a mechanical resonance induced by troops marching over the bridge in step. |
| 01 june | British naval officer and explorer James Clark Ross Successfully led the first expedition to reach the North Magnetic Pole. |
| 21 july | In Brussels, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first King of the Belgians. |
| 21 august | Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia,US; it was suppressed about 48 hours later. |
| 29 august | Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, leadingto the formation of Faraday's law of induction. |
| 08 september | William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 08 september | The Russian Empire brought the Polish November Uprising to anend when its troops captured Warsaw after a two-day assault. |
| 15 september | The John Bull, the oldest operable steam locomotivein the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. |
| 09 october | Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Greek head of state, was assassinatedin Nafplion. |
| 22 november | After a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties,rebellious silkworkers seized Lyon, France, beginning the First CanutRevolt. |
| 27 december | Aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin left Plymouth, England, on what became a historic expedition to South America that made his name as a naturalist. |
| 21 July | Belgium gained independence from the Netherlands and Leopold became the first king. |
| 20 September | The first steam-powered bus was built. Gordon Branz was the inventor of this bus with a capacity of 30 people and running very slow. |
| 13 November | Scottish physicist and mathematician Maxwell was born. |
| 24 November | British physicist Michael Ferrede discovered electricity. |
| 09 August | Steam engine trains ran for the first time in America. |
| 29 August | Michael Faraday of Britain performed the Elektr Transformer for the first time. |
| 03 January | Savitri Bai Phule, India's first female teacher was born in Satara, Maharashtra. |
| 22 January | Eminent biologist Charles Darwin graduated. |
| 07 February | The European country, Belgium, accepted the constitution. |
| 19 March | First Bank Robbery in America, $ 245,000 robbery at Citibank, New York, USA. |
| 08 April | The famous social reformer Raja Ram Maehan Roy reached England. |
| 01 January | William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the liberator, the slaveryist newspaper in Boston. |
| 02 February | Pope Gregory XVI was elected as the 254th Pope in place of Pope Pius VII. |
| 10 March | French Foreign Legion was established. |
| 16 March | The Hutchback of Notre-Dame was first published by Victor Hugo. |
| 08 April | The famous social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy reached England. |
| 04 June | Leopold van Saxon-Coburg was elected as King of Belgium by the National Congress. |
| 01 July | Admiral James C. Ross reaches magnetic north pole |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 June | John Bell Hood / General / United States of America |
| 01 November | Harry Atkinson / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 04 February | Oliver Ames / Politician / United States of America |
| 05 September | Victorien Sardou / Author / France |
| 06 July | Sylvester Pennoyer / Politician / United States of America |
| 06 October | Richard Dedekind / Philosopher / Germany |
| 07 July | Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin / Poet / United States of America |
| 07 September | Alexandre Falguière / Painter / France |
| 08 June | Thomas J. Higgins / Sergeant / Canada |
| 08 July | John Pemberton / Chemist / United States of America |
| 13 June | James Clerk Maxwell / Mathematician / Scotland |
| 13 July | Arthur Böttcher / Pathologist / Germany |
| 13 August | Salomon Jadassohn / Pianist / Germany |
| 16 February | Nikolai Leskov / Author / Russia |
| 19 November | James A. Garfield / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 19 December | Bernice Pauahi Bishop / Philanthropist / United States of America |
| 20 March | Solomon L. Spink / Politician / United States of America |
| 24 February | Leo von Caprivi / Politician / Germany |
| 29 November | Frederick Townsend Ward / Soldier / United States of America |
| 31 October | Paolo Mantegazza / Physiologist / Italy |