1831

Events from the year 1831 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Andrew Jackson (D-TN)
* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-SC)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA)
* Congress: 21st (until March 4), 22nd (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.
* March 18 – Cherokee Nation v. Georgia: An injunction requested by the Cherokee nation, claiming that Georgia's state legislature had created laws which, "go directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a political society", is denied.
===April - June===
* April 18 – The University of Alabama is founded.
* April 21 – New York University is founded in New York City.
===July - September===
* August 7 – American Baptist minister William Miller preaches his first sermon on the Second Advent of Christ in Dresden, New York, launching the Advent Movement in the United States.
* August 21 – Outbreak of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Approximately 55 whites are stabbed, shot and clubbed to death.
===October - December===
* October 30 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
* November 11 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
==Memoriam==
* March 26 – Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1794 (aged 71; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* April 4 – Isaiah Thomas, publisher (aged 82; Worcester, MA, USA)
* May 11 – John Trumbull, poet (aged 81; Detroit, MI Territory, USA)
* May 24
** James Peale, miniaturist and still-life painter (aged 82; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Benjamin Carr, composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher (aged 62; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* May 27 – Jedediah Smith, explorer, hunter, trapper and fur trader (aged 32; Northern Mexico Territory (Now Ulysses, KS), USA)
* June 10 – Nathaniel Hale Pryor, sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (aged 59; Pryor, Indian Territory (Now OK), USA)
* July 4 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 11 – Nat Turner, leader of slave rebellion (aged 31; Jerusalem, VA, USA)
* December 8 – James Hoban, architect of the White House (aged 76; Washington, DC, USA)
==External links==
* 1831 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 6