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Events from the year '''[[1818]] in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]'''. |
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==Incumbents== |
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* [[Monarch of the United Kingdom|Monarch]] – [[ |
* [[Monarch of the United Kingdom|Monarch]] – [[George III]] |
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* [[Regency Acts|Regent]] – [[George IV |
* [[Regency Acts|Regent]] – [[George IV|George, Prince Regent]] |
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* [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] – [[Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool]] ([[Tories (British political party)|Tory]]) |
* [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] – [[Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool]] ([[Tories (British political party)|Tory]]) |
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* [[Foreign Secretary]] – [[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh]] |
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* [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] – [[List of MPs elected in the 1812 United Kingdom general election|5th]] (until 10 June), [[List of MPs elected in the 1818 United Kingdom general election|6th]] (starting 4 August) |
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* [[Home Secretary]] – [[Henry Addington|Lord Sidmouth]] |
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==Events== |
==Events== |
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[[File:Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) - Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828), 2nd Earl of Liverpool - RCIN 404930 - Royal Collection.jpg|thumb|''[[Portrait of Lord Liverpool]]'' by [[Thomas Lawrence]]. Liverpool led the [[Tories (British political party)|Tories]] to victory in the [[1818 United Kingdom general election|1818 general election]].]] |
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* 2 January – [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] founded. |
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* 6 January – Treaty of Mundosir annexes [[Indore]] and the [[Rajput]] states to Britain.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan| |
* 2 January – The [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] is founded.{{cn|date=January 2024}} |
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* 6 January – Treaty of Mundosir annexes [[Indore]] and the [[Rajput]] states to Britain.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=249–250|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> |
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* 3 February – Jeremiah Chubb is granted a patent for the [[Chubb detector lock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chubbarchive.co.uk/page5.html|work=Chubb Archive|title=A Brief History of Chubb 1818–1990s|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Maurice|last=Baren|title=How Household Names Began|location=London|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books|year=1997|isbn=1-85479-257-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/howhouseholdname0000bare/page/43 43–5]|url=https://archive.org/details/howhouseholdname0000bare/page/43}}</ref> |
* 3 February – Jeremiah Chubb is granted a patent for the [[Chubb detector lock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chubbarchive.co.uk/page5.html|work=Chubb Archive|title=A Brief History of Chubb 1818–1990s|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Maurice|last=Baren|title=How Household Names Began|location=London|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books|year=1997|isbn=1-85479-257-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/howhouseholdname0000bare/page/43 43–5]|url=https://archive.org/details/howhouseholdname0000bare/page/43}}</ref> |
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* 11 February – [[Marie André Cantillon]] attempts to assassinate the [[Duke of Wellington]] in Paris. |
* 11 February – [[Marie André Cantillon]] attempts to assassinate the [[Duke of Wellington]] in Paris. |
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* 16 April – [[Court of King's Bench]] decides the case of [[Ashford v Thornton]], upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for [[murder]], to [[trial by battle]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Sir John|year=1926|location=Edinburgh|publisher=William Hodge & Co. Ltd.|title=Trial of Abraham Thornton}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Megarry|first=Sir Robert|year=2005|location=Oxford|publisher=Hart|title=A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others|isbn=1-58477-631-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exU2ejrCpNMC&q=ashford+v.+thornton&pg=PA68|access-date=2010-08-27<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight. |
* 16 April – The [[Court of King's Bench (England)]] decides the case of ''[[Ashford v Thornton]]'', upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for [[murder]], to [[trial by battle]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Sir John|year=1926|location=Edinburgh|publisher=William Hodge & Co. Ltd.|title=Trial of Abraham Thornton}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Megarry|first=Sir Robert|year=2005|location=Oxford|publisher=Hart|title=A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others|isbn=1-58477-631-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exU2ejrCpNMC&q=ashford+v.+thornton&pg=PA68|access-date=2010-08-27<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight. |
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* 11 May – [[ |
* 11 May – [[The Old Vic]] is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in [[South London]] by James King, Daniel Dunn and [[John Thomas Serres|John T. Serres]]. |
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* 30 May – Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] "[[Commissioners' church]]es" to serve the expanding urban population. |
* 30 May – Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] "[[Commissioners' church]]es" to serve the expanding urban population. |
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* 17 June – The [[1818 United Kingdom general election|1818 general election]] begins after [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Lord Liverpool]] asks the Regent to dissolve Parliament. It is the first to be held since 1812 and the first since the end of the [[Napoleonic Wars]] |
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* 18 July – The general election ends in victory for Liverpool's [[Liverpool Ministry|Tory government]] over the [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] opposition. |
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* 25 September – Dr [[James Blundell (physician)|James Blundell]] carries out the first [[blood transfusion]] using human blood, in [[London]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> |
* 25 September – Dr [[James Blundell (physician)|James Blundell]] carries out the first [[blood transfusion]] using human blood, in [[London]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> |
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* 1 October – The [[Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)|Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle]] commences with Britain represented by [[Lord Castlereagh]], the [[Duke of Wellington]] and [[Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry|Lord Stewart]]. |
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* 20 October – |
* 20 October – The [[Treaty of 1818]] between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary of the former as the forty-ninth parallel from the [[Lake of the Woods]] to the [[Rocky Mountains]], also creating the [[Northwest Angle]]. |
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* 15 November − At the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle Britain becomes a member of the [[Quintuple Alliance]] while also signing a secret protocol to continue the [[Quadruple Alliance (1815)]]. |
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* 30 November – The Allied Occupation of France ends with the last British troops under the command of the [[Duke of Wellington]] being withdrawn. |
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* Undated – [[Besses o' th' Barn Band|Besses o' th' Barn brass band]] is formed at [[Whitefield, Greater Manchester|Whitefield]] in the [[Manchester]] cotton district.<ref>{{cite web|title=Besses o' th' Barn Band|url=http://www.besses.co.uk/|publisher=Besses o' th' Barn Band|access-date=2011-08-17}}</ref> |
* Undated – [[Besses o' th' Barn Band|Besses o' th' Barn brass band]] is formed at [[Whitefield, Greater Manchester|Whitefield]] in the [[Manchester]] cotton district.<ref>{{cite web|title=Besses o' th' Barn Band|url=http://www.besses.co.uk/|publisher=Besses o' th' Barn Band|access-date=2011-08-17}}</ref> |
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* [[Thomas Love Peacock]]'s novel ''[[Nightmare Abbey]]'' (anonymous). |
* [[Thomas Love Peacock]]'s novel ''[[Nightmare Abbey]]'' (anonymous). |
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* [[Walter Scott]]'s novel ''[[The Heart of Midlothian]]'' (as by '[[Jedediah Cleishbotham]]'). |
* [[Walter Scott]]'s novel ''[[The Heart of Midlothian]]'' (as by '[[Jedediah Cleishbotham]]'). |
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* [[Thomas Bowdler]]'s expurgated ''The Family Shakspeare'',<ref name=CBH/> 2nd edn. |
* [[Thomas Bowdler]]'s expurgated ''[[The Family Shakspeare]]'',<ref name=CBH/> 2nd edn. |
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* [[Mary Shelley]]'s novel ''[[Frankenstein]]'' (anonymous).<ref name="Icons">{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820|access-date=2007-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|archive-date=17 October 2007<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> |
* [[Mary Shelley]]'s novel ''[[Frankenstein]]'' (anonymous).<ref name="Icons">{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820|access-date=2007-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|archive-date=17 October 2007<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> |
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* [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s poems "[[Ozymandias]]" (published as by 'Glirastes' in ''[[The Examiner (1808–86)|The Examiner]]'' 11 January) and ''[[The Revolt of Islam]]'' (actually issued in December 1817). |
* [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s poems "[[Ozymandias]]" (published as by 'Glirastes' in ''[[The Examiner (1808–86)|The Examiner]]'' 11 January) and ''[[The Revolt of Islam]]'' (actually issued in December 1817). |
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* 22 March – [[John Ainsworth Horrocks]], explorer of [[South Australia]] (died 1846) |
* 22 March – [[John Ainsworth Horrocks]], explorer of [[South Australia]] (died 1846) |
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* 19 April – [[Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet]], Liberal politician and writer (died 1883) |
* 19 April – [[Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet]], Liberal politician and writer (died 1883) |
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* 23 April – [[James Anthony Froude]], religious controversialist and historian (died 1894) |
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* 1 May – [[Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair|Lyon Playfair]], chemist and Liberal politician (died 1898) |
* 1 May – [[Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair|Lyon Playfair]], chemist and Liberal politician (died 1898) |
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* 11 June – [[Alexander Bain (philosopher)|Alexander Bain]], philosopher and educationalist (died 1903) |
* 11 June – [[Alexander Bain (philosopher)|Alexander Bain]], philosopher and educationalist (died 1903) |
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* 11 July – [[William Edward Forster]], Liberal politician (died 1886) |
* 11 July – [[William Edward Forster]], Liberal politician (died 1886) |
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* 22 July – [[Thomas Stevenson]], lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887) |
* 22 July – [[Thomas Stevenson]], lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887) |
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* 30 July – [[Emily Brontë]], novelist and poet (died 1848)<ref>{{cite web |title=Emily Bronte {{!}} Biography, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |
* 30 July – [[Emily Brontë]], novelist and poet (died 1848)<ref>{{cite web |title=Emily Bronte {{!}} Biography, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte |website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=17 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* 3 October – [[Alexander Macmillan (publisher)|Alexander Macmillan]], publisher (died 1896) |
* 3 October – [[Alexander Macmillan (publisher)|Alexander Macmillan]], publisher (died 1896) |
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* 7 December – [[John Blackwood (publisher)|John Blackwood]], publisher (died 1879) |
* 7 December – [[John Blackwood (publisher)|John Blackwood]], publisher (died 1879) |
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==Deaths== |
==Deaths== |
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[[File:Queen Charlotte by Sir Thomas Lawrence 1789.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Portrait of Queen Charlotte|Queen Charlotte]].]]. |
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* 6 March – [[John Gifford]], loyalist political writer (born 1758) |
* 6 March – [[John Gifford (writer)|John Gifford]], loyalist political writer (born 1758) |
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* 24 March – [[Humphry Repton]], garden designer (born 1752) |
* 24 March – [[Humphry Repton]], garden designer (born 1752) |
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* 14 or 16 May – [[Matthew Lewis (writer)|Matthew "Monk" Lewis]], Gothic writer (born 1775) |
* 14 or 16 May – [[Matthew Lewis (writer)|Matthew "Monk" Lewis]], Gothic writer (born 1775) |
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* 1 September – [[Robert Calder]], admiral (born 1745) |
* 1 September – [[Robert Calder]], admiral (born 1745) |
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* 9 September – [[Seymour Fleming]], noblewoman of scandalous reputation, in France (born 1758) |
* 9 September – [[Seymour Fleming]], noblewoman of scandalous reputation, in France (born 1758) |
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* 17 November – [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of [[ |
* 17 November – [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of [[George III]] (born 1744) |
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==See also== |
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* [[1818 in Scotland]] |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 22:58, 16 July 2024
1818 in the United Kingdom |
Other years |
1816 | 1817 | 1818 | 1819 | 1820 |
Constituent countries of the United Kingdom |
England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales |
Sport |
1818 English cricket season |
Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – George III
- Regent – George, Prince Regent
- Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
- Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
- Home Secretary – Lord Sidmouth
Events
[edit]- 2 January – The Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.[citation needed]
- 6 January – Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain.[1]
- 3 February – Jeremiah Chubb is granted a patent for the Chubb detector lock.[2][3]
- 11 February – Marie André Cantillon attempts to assassinate the Duke of Wellington in Paris.
- 16 April – The Court of King's Bench (England) decides the case of Ashford v Thornton, upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle.[4][5] Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight.
- 11 May – The Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres.
- 30 May – Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.
- 17 June – The 1818 general election begins after Prime Minister Lord Liverpool asks the Regent to dissolve Parliament. It is the first to be held since 1812 and the first since the end of the Napoleonic Wars
- 18 July – The general election ends in victory for Liverpool's Tory government over the Whig opposition.
- 23 July – The Crown agrees sale of its rights in the royal forest of Exmoor. Thomas Dyke Acland secures a herd of Exmoor ponies, the nucleus of the modern breed.
- 25 September – Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood, in London.[6]
- 1 October – The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle commences with Britain represented by Lord Castlereagh, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Stewart.
- 20 October – The Treaty of 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary of the former as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.
- 15 November − At the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle Britain becomes a member of the Quintuple Alliance while also signing a secret protocol to continue the Quadruple Alliance (1815).
- 30 November – The Allied Occupation of France ends with the last British troops under the command of the Duke of Wellington being withdrawn.
- Undated – Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district.[7]
Publications
[edit]- Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (posthumous; actually issued in December 1817).
- John Evelyn's Diary (posthumous).
- John Keats' poem Endymion (4 vols.)[1]
- Thomas Love Peacock's novel Nightmare Abbey (anonymous).
- Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (as by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham').
- Thomas Bowdler's expurgated The Family Shakspeare,[1] 2nd edn.
- Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (anonymous).[8]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems "Ozymandias" (published as by 'Glirastes' in The Examiner 11 January) and The Revolt of Islam (actually issued in December 1817).
- Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel The History of the Fairchild Family (vol. 1; anonymous).[8]
Births
[edit]- 2 January – Priscilla Horton, contralto, dancer and actress-manager (died 1895)
- 18 January – George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer (died 1897)
- 24 January – John Mason Neale, Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter (died 1866)
- 28 January – Alfred Stevens, sculptor (died 1875)
- 14 February – Emperor Norton, eccentric (died 1880 in the United States)
- 21 February – George Wilson, chemist (died 1859)
- 10 March – William Menelaus, mechanical engineer (died 1882)
- 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer of South Australia (died 1846)
- 19 April – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, Liberal politician and writer (died 1883)
- 23 April – James Anthony Froude, religious controversialist and historian (died 1894)
- 1 May – Lyon Playfair, chemist and Liberal politician (died 1898)
- 11 June – Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903)
- 20 June – Eugenius Birch, civil engineer specialising in seaside pleasure piers (died 1884)
- 21 June – Richard Wallace, francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
- 11 July – William Edward Forster, Liberal politician (died 1886)
- 22 July – Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887)
- 30 July – Emily Brontë, novelist and poet (died 1848)[9]
- 3 October – Alexander Macmillan, publisher (died 1896)
- 7 December – John Blackwood, publisher (died 1879)
- 24 December
- Eliza Cook, writer, poet and radical campaigner (died 1889)
- James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)
Deaths
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- 6 March – John Gifford, loyalist political writer (born 1758)
- 24 March – Humphry Repton, garden designer (born 1752)
- 14 or 16 May – Matthew "Monk" Lewis, Gothic writer (born 1775)
- 11 August – Robert Carr Brackenbury, Methodist preacher (born 1752)
- 22 August – Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India (born 1732)
- 1 September – Robert Calder, admiral (born 1745)
- 9 September – Seymour Fleming, noblewoman of scandalous reputation, in France (born 1758)
- 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of George III (born 1744)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 249–250. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "A Brief History of Chubb 1818–1990s". Chubb Archive. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ Baren, Maurice (1997). How Household Names Began. London: Michael O'Mara Books. pp. 43–5. ISBN 1-85479-257-1.
- ^ Hall, Sir John (1926). Trial of Abraham Thornton. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co. Ltd.
- ^ Megarry, Sir Robert (2005). A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 1-58477-631-5. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Besses o' th' Barn Band". Besses o' th' Barn Band. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ^ a b "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ "Emily Bronte | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2019.