1831 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 1831 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1831 English cricket season Events from the year 1831 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – William IV Prime Minister – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig) Foreign Secretary – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Home Secretary – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Secretary of War – Earl of Ripon Events thumb|The Opening of New London Bridge by Clarkson Stanfield 3 March – Tithe War breaks out in Ireland. 7 March – Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter.http://www.ras.org.uk/about–the-ras/a-brief-history A brief history of the RAS Royal Astronomical Society 2011-02-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20110130164034/http://www.ras.org.uk/about-the-ras/a-brief-history 30 January 2011 live 12 April – Broughton Suspension Bridge over the River Irwell collapses under marching troops.R. E. D. Bishop Vibration 2nd Cambridge University Press 1979 0-521-22779-8 27 April – End of the First Anglo-Ashanti War (1823–1831). 28 April–1 June – General election results in a Whig victory and a mandate for electoral reform.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 257–258 0-7126-5616-2 May–June – Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil. 23 May – Following an affray at Castlepollard Fair in Ireland, ten men and three women are shot dead by the Royal Irish Constabulary. Nineteen police officers stand trial for the incident but all are acquitted.Paul Connell 'Slaughtered like wild beasts: Massacre at Castlepollard fair, 1831 Cronin, Denis A. etal Irish Fairs and Markets: Studies in Local History Dublin Four Courts Press 2001 1-85182-525-8 143–163 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.Ralph Anstis Warren James and the Dean Forest Riots 978-0-9511371-0-9 Albion House Coalway 1986 1 August – The new London Bridge is officially opened.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 18 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.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840 2007-09-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 22 September 2007 dead 8 September – Coronation of King William IV. 22 September – The House of Commons passes the Great Reform Bill to expand the franchise, but this is later defeated in the Lords. 27 September – British Association for the Advancement of Science first meets, in York. October – King's College London opens. 9–11 October – Reform riots in Nottingham: Nottingham Castle and a silk mill at Beeston are gutted by fire.John Beckett Riot and rebellion The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/riot.htm 2008-07-20 2016-12-26 15 October Special Constables Act regularises operation of the Special Constabulary. Truck Act prohibits payment of wages other than in cash.The History Today Companion to British History https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse registration London Collins & Brown 1-85585-178-4 1995 762 26 October – Cholera epidemic begins in Sunderland. 28 October – Michael Faraday constructs the first dynamo. 29–31 October – 1831 Bristol riots ("Queen Square riots") in Bristol, in connection with the Great Reform Act controversy: 100 city centre properties are destroyed (including the Bishop's palace), at least 120 are estimated to have been killed, 31 of the rioters will be sentenced to death and a colonel facing court-martial for failure to control the riot commits suicide.Revolting riots in Queen Square BBC Made in Bristol https://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/madeinbristol/2004/04/riot/riot.shtml 2004 2011-02-16 December – First meeting in England of the Plymouth Brethren, organised primarily by George Wigram, Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby.Jonathan D. Burnham 2004 A Story of Conflict: the Controversial Relationship Between Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby The Emergence of the Plymouth Brethren Paternoster Press Carlisle 978-1-84227-191-9 56336926Elizabeth A. Livingstone 2000 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Oxford University Press 978-0-19-280057-2 46858944 27 December – Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard Beagle from Plymouth. Undated 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,Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965 and The Tuileries and her play The School for Coquettes. Thomas Hood's poem The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer. Thomas Love Peacock's anonymous novel Crotchet Castle. Mary Prince's slave narrative The History of Mary Prince. Births 21 March – Dorothea Beale, proponent of women's education (died 1906) 7 May – Richard Norman Shaw, architect (died 1912) 16 May – David Edward Hughes, musician and professor of music (died 1900) 13 June – James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (died 1879) 14 October – Samuel Waite Johnson, railway locomotive engineer (died 1912) 15 October – Isabella Bird, explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (died 1904) Deaths 14 February – Henry Maudslay, mechanical engineer (born 1771) 21 February – Robert Hall, Baptist minister (born 1764) 20 April – John Abernethy, surgeon (born 1764) 8 June – Sarah Siddons, actress (born 1755 in Wales) 17 August – Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (born 1787) References 1831 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1831 by country Category:1831 in Europe Category:1830s in the United Kingdom