1819 in the United Kingdom
 1819 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Regent – George, Prince Regent
- Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
- Parliament – 6th
Events
- 6 February – formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.[1]
- 19 February – William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic.[1]
- 20 March – Burlington Arcade opens in London.
- 13 April – the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a wagonway, opens for coal traffic.
- 14 April – the streets of Birmingham are lit by gas for the first time by the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company.
- 21 April–end May – John Keats writes "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and most of his major odes.[2]
- 20 June – the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia, United States, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam.[1]
- June – Act of Parliament to abolish private appeals following acquittals in criminal cases and to abolish trial by combat, in the aftermath of Ashford v Thornton (1818).[3]
- 24 July – a cabinet meeting convened by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool discusses an investigative report of an adulterous affair involving Caroline of Brunswick (wife of the regent George, Prince of Wales) and her servant Bartolomeo Pergami; the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.[4]
- 16 August – Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of radical protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.[5]
- 19 September – Keats writes his ode "To Autumn" at Winchester.[2]
- 23 November–30 December – Six Acts passed by Parliament to suppress assemblies promoting radical reform.
Undated
- Britannia Monument to Admiral Lord Nelson at Great Yarmouth (the "Norfolk Pillar") is completed.
- The Travellers Club is established in London.
Publications
- John Polidori's short story The Vampyre.
- Walter Scott's novels Ivanhoe, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose.
Births
- 8 February – John Ruskin, writer, artist and social critic (died 1900)
- 11 March – Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet, sugar merchant and philanthropist (died 1899)
- 28 March – Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (died 1891)
- 24 May – Queen Victoria, born Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, queen regnant (died 1901)
- 5 June – John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892)
- 12 June – Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875)
- 1 August – Richard Dadd, painter (died insane 1886)
- 13 August – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-born mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
- 26 August – Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (born at Coburg; died 1861)
- 5 September – stillborn child to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born dead at Calais)[6]
- 22 November – George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, novelist (died 1880)
Deaths
- 25 August – James Watt, Scottish-born inventor (born 1736)
- 1 October – William Speechly, horticulturalist (born 1735)
- 22 November – John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742)
- 19 December – Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765; died at Naples)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b Keats, John (1973). Barnard, John (ed.). The Complete Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin Education. ISBN 0-14-080668-7.
- ^ Megarry, Robert (2005). A New Miscellany-at-Law. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 978-1-58477-631-4.
- ^ David, Saul (2000). Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency. Grove Press. p. 388.
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ Ziegler, Philip (1971). King William IV. London: Collins. p. 126. ISBN 0-00-211934-X.