1802 in the United Kingdom

1802 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland:
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Events from the year 1802 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Incumbents

Monarch - George III
Prime Minister - Henry Addington (Tory)

Events

27 March - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.^[1]
15 April - William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a host of daffodils which inspire his best-known poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.^[2]
19 April - Joseph Grimaldi first presents his white-faced clown character "Joey", at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.^[3]
5 July - André-Jacques Garnerin and Edward Hawke Locker make a 17-mile (27.4-km) balloon flight from Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London, to Chingford in just over 15 minutes.
5 July-28 August - General election brings victory for the Tories led by Henry Addington.
27 August - West India Docks, first commercial docks in London, open.^[4]
3 September - William Wordsworth's sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" written.
5 November - Marc Isambard Brunel begins installation of his blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth Block Mills.^[5]
13 November - The first play to be explicitly called a melodrama ("melodrame") is performed in London, Thomas Holcroft's Gothic A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.^[6]
16 November - Arrest in London of ringleaders of the Despard Plot: a failed conspiracy by revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Despard, a radical Anglo-Irish former British Army officer and colonial official, apparently intended to assassinate King George III and seize key positions such as the Bank of England and Tower of London as a prelude to a wider uprising.^[7]^[8]
2 December - The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act (2 June) comes into effect, regulating conditions for child labour in factories.^[1] Although poorly enforced, it pioneers a series of Factory Acts.

Ongoing

Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808

Undated

Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.^[1]
London Fever Hospital founded.
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, admits its first intake.
Solomon Hirschell elected rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London, becoming recognised as chief rabbi of the United Kingdom.^[9]
Sir William Herschel first uses the term binary star to refer to a star which revolves around another star.
Thomas Wedgwood discovers a method of creating photographs using silver nitrate.^[1]
George Bodley of Exeter patents the first enclosed kitchen stove.^[10]^[11]
Goodwood Racecourse laid out.^[4]

Publications

10 October - The reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published.
George Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds.
Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.^[1]

Births

3 January - Charles Pelham Villiers, politician (died 1898)
6 February - Charles Wheatstone, scientist and inventor (died 1875)
7 March - Edwin Landseer, animal painter (died 1873)
10 July - Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher (died 1871)
23 December - Sara Coleridge, scholar (died 1852)
10 October - Hugh Miller, Scottish geologist (suicide 1856)

Deaths

21 January - John Moore, Scottish-born physician and writer (born 1729)
28 January - Joseph Wall, army officer, colonial governor and murderer (born 1737)
2 February - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, statesman (born 1713)
18 April - Erasmus Darwin, physician and botanist (born 1731)
9 November - Thomas Girtin, watercolourist (born 1775)
15 November - George Romney, portrait painter (born 1734)

References

1 2 3 4 5 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 354. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ "Dorothy and the daffodils". Wordsworth Trust. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
↑ Uglow, Jenny (1 November 2009). "The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi by Andrew McConnell". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 238–239. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Bagust, Harold (2006). The Greater Genius? - a biography of Marc Isambard Brunel. Hersham: Ian Allan. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7110-3175-3.
↑ "Show me the horrid tenant of thy heart". THEA. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
↑ Conner, Clifford D. (2000). Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel. Combined Publishing.
↑ Jay, Mike (2004). The Unfortunate Colonel Despard. Bantam Press. ISBN 0593051955.
↑ Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2004). "Hirschell , Solomon (1762–1842)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13363. Retrieved 2011-12-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Cornforth, David; Speight, Anne (3 May 2009). "Bodley & Co.". Exeter Memories. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
↑ "The History of Ranges". Tarvin: Antique Fireplaces & Ranges. Retrieved 2011-03-12.

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