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)
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