1811 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1811 in the United Kingdom. This is a Census year and the start of the British Regency.
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Incumbents [edit]
- Monarch - King George III
- Prime Minister - Spencer Perceval, Tory
Events [edit]
- 1 February - Bell Rock Lighthouse begins operation off the coast of Scotland.[1]
- 5 February - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent[1] because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III. He is known as the Prince Regent and this is the beginning of the Regency period.[2]
- 13 March - Battle of Lissa: British fleet defeats the French.
- 25–27 March - Battle of Anholt: British naval forces defeat those of Denmark.
- 4 April - Huddersfield Narrow Canal completed by opening of Standedge Tunnel under the Pennines, the longest (5,413 yards (4,950 m)), deepest and highest canal tunnel in Britain.[3]
- 27 May - The second national Census reveals that the population of England and Wales has increased in ten years by over a million to 10.1 million.[4]
- 18 June - The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists leave the established Church of England by ordaining their own ministers in Bala, North Wales.
- 8 September - The first known landing on Rockall is made by a party from HMS Endymion.
- 16 October - National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales established by the Church of England to promote a system of National Schools.
- November - Luddite uprisings begin in northern England and Midlands.[5]
- 7–19 December - Ratcliff Highway murders in London.
Ongoing [edit]
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
- Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812
- Anglo-Swedish War 1810–1812
- Peninsular War, 1808–1814
Undated [edit]
- Highland Clearances: The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland begin mass expulsion of crofting tenants from their Scottish Highland estates.[6][7]
- Building of Regent Street begins John Nash's development of the West End of London.[8]
- The first complete ichthyosaur fossil is found by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis.
Publications [edit]
- Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility ('by a lady').
- Francis Place's Illustrations and Proofs of the Principles of Population, including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others, the first significant text in English to advocate contraception.[9]
Births [edit]
- 9 January - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, writer (died 1856)
- 6 February - Henry George Liddell, clergyman (died 1898)
- 13 June - Owen Stanley, Royal Navy officer (died 1850)
- 18 July - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (died 1863)
- 21 December - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1882)
Deaths [edit]
- 9 February - Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (born 1732)
- 14 March - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1735)
- 7 May - Richard Cumberland, dramatist (born 1732)
- 28 May - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, minister (born 1742)
- 27 November - Andrew Meikle, engineer (born 1719)
References [edit]
- ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "George IV (1762 - 1830)". BBC History. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
- ^ "Standedge Tunnel: a true wonder of the waterways". British Waterways. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
- ^ "1811". 2011 Census. 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ "George Granville Leveson-Gower (1st Duke of Sutherland)". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ Noble, Ross (15 October 2010). "The Cultural Impact of the Highland Clearances". British History in-depth. BBC. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 244–245. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Francis Place". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
