Date	Event	Topics
Edit RecID: 1451	1831	Lucia Elizabeth Mathews (né Bartolozzi) becomes first woman manager of a theater (the Olympic theater); she becomes known as Mme. Vestries.
Edit RecID: 1452	1831	Rise of Disciplines: British Association for the Advancement of Science founded in York.
Edit RecID: 1839	1831	The Quarterly Journal of Education begins.
Edit RecID: 1981	1831	Carlyle, Characteristics.
Edit RecID: 1982	1831	British census indicates population of 24 million.
Edit RecID: 1983	1831	Ireland: start of "national" system of education.	*Ireland
Edit RecID: 2331	1831	Ashton Warner, d. 1831, Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's. With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists, ed. Simon Strickland	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 1425	1831 - 1833	Cholera epidemic from 1831 to 1833, thought to arise from "miasma" (see "Oct. 1831).
Edit RecID: 1417	Mar 1, 1831	Lord John Russell introduces "The Great Reform Bill" in the House of Commons.
Edit RecID: 1453	Apr 20, 1831	Reform Bill defeated; Parliament dissolved; country houses armed with cannons against mob violence.
Edit RecID: 1454	June 1831	Macaulay reviews Thomas Moore's Byron (1830) in Edinburgh Review.
Edit RecID: 1455	June 14, 1831	Newly elected pro-reform, predominantly Whig House of Commons.	*Whig Party
Edit RecID: 1456	June 24, 1831	Whigs introduce Reform Bill into new Parliament.	*Whig Party
Edit RecID: 1457	Sept 22, 1831	Reform Bill passes in House of Commons.
Edit RecID: 1424	Oct 1831	Cholera breaks out in slums of Sunderland (50,000 dead in the next 15 months).
Edit RecID: 1458	Oct 8, 1831	Reform Bill defeated in the House of Lords.
Edit RecID: 1459	Oct 10, 1831	Nottingham Castle burnt by a mob.
Edit RecID: 1460	Nov 5, 1831	Guy Fawkes Day: mini effigies of Bishops burnt.
Edit RecID: 1461	Nov 21, 1831	Government proclamation prohibits meetings by National Union of Working Classes.
Edit RecID: 1462	Dec 12, 1831	Lord John Russell introduces new Reform Bill in the House. Gladstone attacks Reform Bill in Oxford Union debate.	*Parlimentary Reform
Edit RecID: 1465	1832	English Reform and Abolition: Reform Bill (see 7 May and 7 June below) invigorates abolition.	*Parlimentary Reform *Abolition
Edit RecID: 1466	1832	Benjamin Disraeli stands for election to Parliament as radical at High Wycombe, is defeated, is again defeated in general election.
Edit RecID: 1467	1832	George Grote elected to Parliament; sits until 1841.
Edit RecID: 1468	1832	Sadler's Committee on Child Labor reports.	*Child Labor
Edit RecID: 1469	1832	Byron (posthumously), The Works of Lord Byron: with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq., published by John Murray in 17 volumes until 1834.