1815 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1815 in the United Kingdom. 1815 marked the end of years of war between the United Kingdom and France when Duke of Wellington won a decisive victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Fighting in the War of 1812 between the UK and the United States also ceased. The year also saw the introduction of the Corn Laws which protected British land owners from cheaper foreign imports of corn.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - King George III
- Prime Minister - Earl of Liverpool, Tory
[edit] Events
- 2 January
- Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham.
- The Prince Regent divides the Order of the Bath into three classes: the Knights Grand Cross, Knights Commander and Companions.[1]
- 3 January - Austria, Britain and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
- 8 January - War of 1812: The Battle of New Orleans is the last major battle of the war.[1]
- 15 March - Corn Laws passed by Parliament.[2]
- 13 February - The Cambridge Union Society, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, founded at the University of Cambridge.
- 18 June - Napoleonic Wars: The Duke of Wellington wins a decisive victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.[3]
- 20 June - A victory parade is held in London to mark the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 10 July - Apothecaries Act bans unlicensed medical practitioners.[4]
- 24 July–4 August - HMS Bellerophon anchors off the south Devon coast with Napoleon on board prior to his being taken into exile.[5]
- 1 August - William Smith publishes the first national geological map of the UK, A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland.[6]
- 21 October - Humphry Davy patents the Davy lamp as a coal mining safety lamp.[3]
- 5 November - Ionian Islands become a British protectorate.[4]
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- Britain's longest tramway tunnel is built at Blaenavon, just over one mile in length.
- Use of the pillory is limited to punishment for perjury.
- Jones, Watts and Doulton begin life as a stoneware pottery in South London.
[edit] Publications
- Thomas Love Peacock's first novel Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816).[7]
- Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering (anonymous).
[edit] Births
- 12 February - Edward Forbes, naturalist (died 1854)
- 24 January - Thomas Gee, Welsh publisher (died 1898)
- 24 April - Anthony Trollope, English novelist (died 1882)
- 2 November - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
- 10 December - Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer (died 1852)
[edit] Deaths
- 1 January - William Creech, Scottish bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745)
- 8 January - Edward Pakenham, British general (killed in battle) (born 1778)
- 16 January - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (born 1765)
- 22 February - Smithson Tennant, chemist (born 1761)
- 1 June - James Gillray, caricaturist (born 1757)
- 18 June - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (born 1758)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & Co. p. 13.
- ^ "British History Timeline, BBC History". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070922191910/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ a b "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 247–248. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Cordingly, David (2003). The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon – the biography of a ship of the line, 1782–1836. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747565376.
- ^ Eyles, V. A.; Eyles, Joan M. (1938). "On the different issues of the first geological map of England and Wales". Annals of Science 3: 190–212. http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/933403_751304857_739366957.pdf. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
- ^ "Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)". Encyclopædia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 22.
