| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1831/05/16 | A cholera epidemic erupts in Warsaw during the Polish-Russian War. By the 20th of August, 4,734 people will become ill and 2,524 will die. | Warsaw, Pl, Masovian Voivodeship, PL |
| 1831/10/00 | Cholera arrives in Sunderland, England, via infected passengers on a freighter arriving from the Baltic. The disease will spreads easily as the city's waste flows directly into the River Wear, creating a toxic concentration of Vibrio cholerae bacteria. | Sunderland, Tyne and Wear |
| 1831/10/16 | On Sunday, 12-year-old Isabella climbs into bed in perfect health after attending church twice that day. At midnight, she fell violently ill and passed away less than 24 hours later on the afternoon of October 17 or 18. | Sunderland Exchange, Sunderland |
| 1831/10/22 | Saturday, William Sproat eats a meal of mutton chops and takes a walk along the riverside. Upon returning, he is hit with sudden fever, severe stomach cramps and explosive diarrhea. | |
| 1831/10/23 | A 60-year-old keelman (a worker on the river coal boats), William Sproat (sometimes spelled Sprout) dies of cholera in Sunderland on England's northeastern coast. | |
| 1831/10/23 | Called in by Mrs Spouts, local medical officer, Dr James Butler Kell, who immediately recognizes the terrifying symptoms of Asiatic cholera. | |
| 1831/10/26 | After three days of rapid decline where his skin turned a sunken, cold, bluish-grey, William Sproat dies in his bed. His lodgings were located right near the Sunderland Quayside, a bustling dock just a musket balls throw from where Isabella Hazard died. | Sunderland Exchange, Sunderland |
| 1831/10/30 | Fearing a 40-day quarantine that would freeze coal trade, local merchants, shipowners and some doctors fiercely denied that Sproat died of Asiatic cholera. Dr James B Kell bypasses the denial-ridden local Board of Health to alert national authorities. | |
| 1831/12/25 | By late December the Cholera outbreak appears to have been contained, but the infection had already spread to Gateshead, where it erupts suddenly and violently on Christmas, resulting in 115 cases and 50 deaths by the following day. | Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| 1832/01/29 | The ELIZABETH anchors on the Thames. Because it came from a cholera-stricken port, the London authorities immediately order it into a 10-day quarantine. No cargo is unloaded, and no crew members are allowed to go ashore or interact with London workers. | |
| 1832/02/09 | Ship scraper John James cleans the hull and interior of the collier ship ELIZABETH. | |
| 1832/02/10 | At home in Rotherhithe, John James falls violently ill James as the quick-acting bacterium ravages his system. | |
| 1832/02/11 | John James passes away in Rotherhithe, proving that the strict 10-day quarantine system had failed because nobody is aware that the disease is waterborne rather than strictly airborne. | Rotherhithe, |
| 1832/02/12 | On Sunday, Sarah Ferguson of White's Rents, Nightingale Lane (lost) falls severely ill and is rushed to the Limehouse Workhouse (lost), where she will died in eight hours. Her skin turned the telltale blue color, confirms it is Asiatic cholera. | Limehouse, London, |
| 1832/02/15 | By the 15th, London records 16 cases and 7 deaths from cholera across Rotherhithe, Limehouse, Ratcliffe Highway, Lambeth and Southwark. The authorities are poorly prepared for the invasion of a new epidemic and the doctors disagree bitterly on treatments. | City of London, |
| 1832/03/00 | The London General Institution for the Gratuitous Cure of Malignant Diseases, established by William Marsden at 16 Greville Street (lost), is the only London hospital that treats cholera victims. | Bloomsbury, |
| 1832/05/00 | Between 29 May and 10 June 1832, eight major street riots erupt in Liverpool. The mobs believe that cholera victims are being removed to the hospital to be killed by doctors in order to use them for anatomical dissection. | Liverpool, Merseyside |
| 1834/00/00 | Dr Marsden's treatise on cholera, "Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhoea, better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera", is published. |
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