1831 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1831 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - William IV
Prime Minister - Earl Grey (Whig)

Events

3 March - Tithe War breaks out in Ireland.
7 March - Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter.^[1]
12 April - Broughton Suspension Bridge over the River Irwell collapses under marching troops.^[2]
28 April–1 June - General election results in a Whig victory, and a mandate for electoral reform.^[3]
May–June - Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil.
30 May - Census in the United Kingdom.
1 June - Royal Navy officer and explorer James Clark Ross leads the first expedition to reach the Magnetic North Pole.
8 June - Freeminers in the Forest of Dean, led by Warren James, break down enclosures in the Forest.^[4]
1 August - The new London Bridge is officially opened.^[5]
17 August - The paddle steamer Rothsay Castle is wrecked at the eastern end of the Menai Strait with the loss of 93 lives.
29 August - Michael Faraday demonstrates electromagnetic induction.^[6]
8 September - Coronation of King William IV.^[5]
22 September - The House of Commons passes the Reform Bill, but this is later defeated in the Lords.
27 September - British Association for the Advancement of Science first meets, in York.^[3]
26 October - Cholera epidemic begins in Sunderland.
28 October - Michael Faraday constructs the first dynamo.^[5]
31 October - Queen Square riots, Bristol: Rioters burn down 100 houses in Bristol (including the Bishop's palace); intervention by the 14th Dragoons leads to death or injury of hundreds.^[7]
December - First meeting in England of the Plymouth Brethren, organised primarily by George Wigram, Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby.^[8]^[9]
27 December - Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle.^[5]

Undated

Truck Act prohibits payment of wages other than in cash.^[10]
Ending of the Anglo-Ashanti war.
King's College London opens.
The house which will eventually contain Abbey Road Studios is built in the St. John's Wood district of London.

Publications

January - Joseph Livesey begins publishing The Moral Reformer in Preston, Lancashire, the first publication of the temperance movement in England.
Mrs Gore's novels Pin Money, Mothers and Daughters,^[11] The School for Coquettes and The Tuileries.
Thomas Hood's poem The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer.
Thomas Love Peacock's novel Crotchet Castle (anonymous).

Births

21 March - Dorothea Beale, proponent of women's education (died 1906)
16 May - David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music (died 1900)
13 June - James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (died 1879)

Deaths

21 February - Robert Hall, Baptist minister (born 1764)
20 April - John Abernethy, surgeon (born 1764)
8 June - Sarah Siddons, actress (born 1755 in Wales)
December - Happy Jerry, mandrill (born before 1815 in West Africa)

References

↑ "A brief history of the RAS". Royal Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
↑ Bishop, R.E.D. (1979). Vibration (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22779-8.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Anstis, Ralph (1986). Warren James and the Dean Forest Riots. Coalway: Albion House. ISBN 978-0-9511371-0-9.
1 2 3 4 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
↑ "Revolting riots in Queen Square". Made in Bristol. BBC. 2004. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
↑ Burnham, Jonathan D. (2004). "The Emergence of the Plymouth Brethren". A Story of Conflict: the Controversial Relationship Between Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby. Carlisle: Paternoster Press. ISBN 978-1-84227-191-9. OCLC 56336926.
↑ Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2000). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280057-2. OCLC 46858944.
↑ The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. 1995. p. 762. ISBN 1-85585-178-4.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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1831 in Europe

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