James Monroe died on 4 July 1831 in New York City, aged 73. The fifth President of the United States, Monroe was a Virginian who fought in the Revolutionary War, served as a diplomat, and helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. As president from 1817 to 1825 he presided over the so-called Era of Good Feelings, a time of reduced party conflict, and signed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. His government obtained Florida from Spain. In 1823 he announced the Monroe Doctrine, warning European powers against new colonization in the Americas, which became a lasting principle of American foreign policy. The capital of Liberia, Monrovia, is named after him. He died on the Fourth of July.
Before and after
- 1831Electromagnetic induction
- 1831Hokusai publishes The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- from 20 January 1831 to 1 January 1833Bosnian uprising
- 13 June 1831Birth of James Clerk Maxwell
- 4 July 1831Death of James Monroe
- August 1831Nat Turner's slave rebellion
- 14 November 1831Death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 19 November 1831Birth of James A. Garfield
- from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836Second voyage of HMS Beagle
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