1831

1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1831st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 831st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1831, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1828 1829 1830 – 1831 – 1832 1833 1834

1831 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1831 MDCCCXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2584
Armenian calendar	1280 ԹՎ ՌՄՁ
Assyrian calendar	6581
Balinese saka calendar	1752–1753
Bengali calendar	1238
Berber calendar	2781
British Regnal year	1 Will. 4 – 2 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar	2375
Burmese calendar	1193
Byzantine calendar	7339–7340
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4527 or 4467     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4528 or 4468
Coptic calendar	1547–1548
Discordian calendar	2997
Ethiopian calendar	1823–1824
Hebrew calendar	5591–5592
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1887–1888
- Shaka Samvat	1752–1753
- Kali Yuga	4931–4932
Holocene calendar	11831
Igbo calendar	831–832
Iranian calendar	1209–1210
Islamic calendar	1246–1247
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 2 (天保２年)
Javanese calendar	1758–1759
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4164
Minguo calendar	81 before ROC 民前81年
Nanakshahi calendar	363
Thai solar calendar	2373–2374
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 1957 or 1576 or 804     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 1958 or 1577 or 805

Events

• June 13 – James Clerk Maxwell born in Edinburgh
• October 30 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.

Births

November 19 - James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States (b. 1831)

Deaths

July 4 - James Monroe, 73, fifth President of the United States, tuberculosis (b. 1758)