Editing 1831 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[William Lloyd Garrison]] begins [[publishing]] ''[[The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper)|The Liberator]]'', an anti-[[slavery]] [[newspaper]], in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Japan]]ese [[department store]], [[Takashimaya]] in [[Kyoto]] established.<ref>{{cite web|title=Takashimaya Archives 1831-1908|url=http://www.takashimaya.co.jp/archives/history/index.html|publisher=Takashimaya|access-date=2021-01-11|language=ja|archive-date=April 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407161950/http://www.takashimaya.co.jp/archives/history/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February]]&ndash;March &ndash; Revolts in [[Modena]], [[Parma]] and the [[Papal States]] are put down by [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] [[troops]].
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XVI]] succeeds [[Pope Pius VIII]], as the 254th pope.
* [[February 5]] &ndash; Dutch naval lieutenant [[Jan van Speyk]] blows up his own gunboat in [[Antwerp]] rather than strike his colours on the demand of supporters of the [[Belgian Revolution]].
* [[February 7]] &ndash; The Belgian [[Constitution of Belgium|Constitution of 1831]] is approved by the [[National Congress of Belgium|National Congress]].
*[[February 8]] &ndash; French-born botanical explorer [[Aimé Bonpland]] leaves [[Paraguay]] for [[Argentina]]. 
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Battle of Debre Abbay]]: [[Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles|Ras]] [[Marye of Yejju]] marches into [[Tigray Province|Tigray]], and defeats and kills the warlord [[Sabagadis]].
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Battle of Olszynka Grochowska|Battle of Olszynka Grochowska (Grochów)]]: Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
* [[March 10]] &ndash; The [[French Foreign Legion]] is founded.
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Victor Hugo]]'s historical romantic Gothic novel ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', known in English as ''[[The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]]'', is published in Paris.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The [[Bosnian uprising (1831–32)]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] begins.