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Events from the year '''[[1818]] in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]'''. |
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Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Regent – George, Prince Regent
- Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
- Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
- Parliament – 5th (until 10 June), 6th (starting 4 August)
Events
- 2 January – Institution of Civil Engineers founded.
- 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 – 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.[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.
- 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]
- 20 October – a convention 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.
- Undated – Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district.[7]
Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; 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.