1805 in the United Kingdom
 1805 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom. This is the year of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Incumbents
Events
- 20 January – London Docks open.[1]
- 21 February – Charles Manners-Sutton confirmed as Archbishop of Canterbury.[2]
- 18 April – Ordnance Survey begins systematic publication of its General Survey of England and Wales ("Old Series") maps to a scale of one inch to the mile (1:63,360) with those for Essex.[3]
- 4 June – the first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.[1]
- 3 August – the annual cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School is played for the first time.[1]
- 21 October – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar – British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.[4]
- 6 November – news of the victory at Trafalgar and Nelson's death reaches London.[5]
- 26 November – the Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened in Wales, the tallest and longest in Britain.[6]
Concluded Wars
- Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
Publications
- John Dalton's paper "On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other Liquids". Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 2nd series 1: pp. 271–87, including the first published list of standard atomic weights.
- Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
- First printed version of the folk song "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea" in its modern (Tyneside) version.
Births
- 27 January – Samuel Palmer, artist (died 1881)
- 8 March – Rayner Stephens, Scottish-born radical reformer and Methodist minister (died 1879)
- 20 March – Thomas Cooper, Chartist, poet and religious lecturer (died 1892)
- 5 July
- Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, agriculturalist, nephew of Napoleon I (died 1870 in the United States)
- Robert FitzRoy, admiral and meteorologist (suicide 1865)
- 29 August – Frederick Maurice, theologian (died 1872)
- 22 December – John Obadiah Westwood, entomologist (died 1893)
Deaths
- 2 January – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733)
- 3 January – Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737)
- 30 January – John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
- 18 January – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730)
- 2 February – Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
- 25 February
- William Buchan, doctor (born 1729)
- Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722)
- 7 May – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)
- 25 May – William Paley, philosopher (born 1743)
- 3 August – Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724)
- 28 August – Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722)
- 5 October – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738)
- 21 October – Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Jacob, W. M. (2004). "Sutton, Charles Manners (1755–1828)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 February 2011. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Ordnance Survey: Old Series – The first fully "OS" map". Old maps of Essex. 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "British History Timeline, BBC History". Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ The London Gazette, extraordinary edition, 6 November 1805; The Times, 7 November 1805.
- ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.