1831 painting of a three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, entering a West Indies port.

* William Jones ( statesman ) ( 1760 – 1831 ), fourth United States Secretary of the Navy and US congressman from Pennsylvania

The Governor-General between 1831 and 1855, Prince Menshikov, sojourned his entire term in St Petersburg, being simultaneously the Russian Minister of Navy.

1831 painting of a three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, entering a West Indies port.

* Owen Thomas Edgar ( 1831 – 1929 ) — United States Navy.

His third son, Sir William Hope-Johnstone ( 1766 – 1831 ) was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

* was launched in 1822, making her the first steam-powered vessel of the Royal Navy, although not added to the Navy List until 1831.

In 1831 and 1832 Dudley was active in a group, headed by former Secretary of the Navy John Branch, that denounced Martin Van Buren, whom Dudley opposed more vehemently than he did Jackson, while professing to support Jackson.

From 1546 to 1831, the Navy Board was also the name of a body separate from the Admiralty, originally called Council of the Marine and presided over by the Lieutenant of the Admiralty, which was responsible for the administrative affairs of the naval service, including the building and repair of and supplies to naval ships.

* USS Spark ( 1831 ), a United States Navy schooner

* Edward Berry ( 1768 – 1831 ), Rear Admiral, Royal Navy

* John Edwards ( American Civil War sailor ) ( 1831 – 1902 ), member of U. S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War

** Captain, ( later Admiral ), Sir Charles Bullen was the first Superintendent, being appointed in December 1831, and invested with the same power and authority as the former Commissioners, " except in matters requiring an Act of Parliament to be submitted by the Commissioner of the Navy ".

From 1824-1828 he served at the New York Navy Yard, and in 1831 reported to the Pacific Station for a three-year cruise in command of Falmouth.

Commodore Arthur Sinclair ( 28 February 1780 – 7 February 1831 ) was an early American naval hero, who served in the U. S. Navy during the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War and in the War of 1812.

Renshaw followed his father into the Navy and was appointed as a midshipman in November 1831.

A three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy circa 1831, typical of the design of Bermudian ships by the 19th Century.

In 1831, McClintock became a member of the Royal Navy as a gentleman volunteer, and joined a series of searches for Sir John Franklin between 1848 and 1859.

In August 1831 the volcano had risen to above sea level, although still only a couple of rocks, but the British Navy thought it was very suitable as a base to control the traffic in the Mediterranean, as it was closer to the European continent than the island of Malta.

A native of Bayonne, Jauréguiberry entered the French Navy in 1831.

Rear Admiral Sir Edward Berry, 1st Baronet, KCB ( 1768 – 13 February 1831 ) was an officer in Britain's Royal Navy primarily known for his role as flag captain of Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Vanguard at the Battle of the Nile, prior to his knighthood in 1798.

Wainwright was commissioned in the United States Navy on 11 May 1831.

James Henry Gillis ( 14 May 1831 – 6 December 1910 ) was an Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.

In 1831, Stephen Girard ’ s Bank had formed the " Philadelphia Merchant ’ s Exchange Company " to erect a new building to house the Board of Brokers and other groups.

There were two incarnations of the Board of Health ( in 1805 and 1831 ) and a General Board of Health ( 1854 to 1858 ) that reported directly into the Privy Council.

The office was created on 15 October 1831, initially it was known as the Board of Works.

He served as a Lord of the Admiralty in 1827 and as Secretary to the Board of Control under Lord Grey between 1830 and 1831.

He ran for unsuccessfully for Congress in 1827 and 1829, and served on Gallatin's Board of Aldermen from 1831 to 1835.

Partially funded by the Virginia Board of Public Works, the railroad began operating in 1831, the first in the state and the second commercial railroad to be built in the nation.

On February 15, 1831, the C & A and D & R were combined as the Joint Companies, with all important decisions made by a Joint Board, and all stock was consolidated.

The Board selected Tuscaloosa, then capital of the Alabama, as the site of The University in 1827, and opened its doors to students on April 18, 1831.

In 1831, Dwight Baldwin ( 1798 – 1886 ) and Charlotte Fowler Baldwin were sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ( ABCFM ) as medical missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, as the Hawaiian Islands were called at the time.

Evarts was influenced by the effects of the Second Great Awakening and served the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as its treasurer from 1812-1820 and Secretary from 1821 until his death in 1831.

However, Bernard stayed on the Board of Engineers until 1831.

" The enterprise was saved by the remarkable act of 1831 which organized a road company, with the Governor as President and one of the Board of Directors, with power to borrow money ($ 125, 000 ) on the credit of the State to construct a turnpike road of a minimum width of twelve feet, ' from Winchester to some point on the Ohio River to be situated by the principal engineer ', and with the right to erect bridges or to regulate ferries already in existence and to establish toll-gates on each twenty-mile ( 32 km ) section completed.

He entered the general merchandise business in Madison, Illinois in 1831, was president of the Illinois Board of Public Works from 1834 to 1837, and was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1836.

It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.

The couple's only son was born on April 6, 1831, but lived only a few minutes.

Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

The Sanskrit text was printed at Calcutta in 1831.

Around 1831, when Anne was eleven, she and Emily broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create and develop their own fantasy world, Gondal.

Anne was particularly close to Emily especially after Charlotte's departure for Roe Head School, in January 1831.

* 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.

As another consequence of the disturbances, a new constitution was accepted in 1831 which came into effect on 4 September of that year.

The phylum was originally called " Polyzoa ", but this term was superseded by " Bryozoa " in 1831.

The cell nucleus was discovered by Robert Brown in 1831.

From 1831 to 1841, Palestine was under the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt.

The extension, the East Wing, was completed by 1831.

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.

In 1831, a legislative assembly was established by local consent at a meeting of principal inhabitants held at Pedro St. James Castle on December 5 of that year.

From May 1827 to September 1831, with the exception of brief interventions by Freire, the presidency was occupied by Francisco Antonio Pinto, Freire's former vice president.

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

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.

The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 and in more detail in 1831 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in a talk at the Linnean Society of London.

The Baptist chapel was built in 1831.

** Józef Chlopicki was styled Dictator from 5 December 1830-December 1830 and again in December 1830-25 January 1831

In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.