Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

* 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.

* 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.

* 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher ( d. 1831 )

* 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God.

* 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.

* 1798 – Sangolli Rayanna, Indian freedom fighter ( d. 1831 )

* 1831 – John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1901 )

* 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.

* 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian scholar and theosophist ( d. 1891 )

* 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.

* Alexander, Prince of Lippe ( 1831 – 1905 ), prince of Lippe

* 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

* 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.

* 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon ( b. 1764 )

* annual Amtsbürgermeister 1815 – 1831

In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

* 1831 – D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns.

* Pope Gregory XVI ( 1765 – 1846, r. 1831 – 46 )

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

#* Napoleon Louis Bonaparte ( 1804 – 1831 )

The first Portalian president was General Joaquín Prieto, who served two terms ( 1831 – 1836, 1836 – 1841 ).

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ) furnishes another 19th-century example of the romantic-historical novel as does Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli (, born Georg Leo von Caprivi ; 24 February 1831 – 6 February 1899 ) was a German major general and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany.

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.

With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

* 1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet ( d. 1831 )

* 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer ( d. 1897 )

* 1760 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1831 )

Vom Kriege () is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz ( 1780 – 1831 ), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in 1832.

* January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky ( b. 1831 )

* June 1 – Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian military strategist ( d. 1831 )

* October 27 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1831 )

With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

Das manichäische Religionssystem (" The Manichaean religious system ") appeared in 1831, Apollonius von Tyana in 1832, Die christliche Gnosis (" Christian Gnosis ") in 1835, and Über das Christliche im Platonismus oder Socrates und Christus (" On Christianity in Platonism: Socrates and Christ ") in 1837.

* June 1-Carl von Clausewitz, soldier and military historian and theorist ( died 1831 )

* January 26-Ludwig Achim von Arnim, poet and novelist ( died 1831 )

* August von Gneisenau ( 1760 – 1831 ), Prussian field marshal

* Johann von Herbeck ( 1831 – 1877 ), composer

Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil ( 1762 – 23 February 1831 ) ( Фаддей Фёдорович Штейнгель, Faddei Fjodorovitš Šteingel ) was a Russian military officer, and the Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824.

* Lars Gabriel von Haartman 1831 – 1842

Émile de Girardin married in 1831 Delphine Gay, and after her death in 1855 Guillemette Josephine Brunold, countess von Tieffenbach, morganatic stepdaughter of Prince Frederick of Nassau.

* Lars Gabriel von Haartman 1831 – 1842

It was treated in epic form by Victor von Strauß ( 1854 ), in dramatic form by Raupach ( 1835 ) and in comic travesty ( after the 1831 Meyerbeer opera Robert le diable ) by W. S. Gilbert in 1868.

Count Hans Karl Friedrich Anton von Diebitsch und Narden or Graf Ivan Ivanovich Diebitsch-Zabalkansky () ( 13 May 1785, Groß Leipe near Obernigk, Lower Silesia – 10 June 1831, near Pułtusk ) was a German-born soldier serving as Russian Field Marshal.