1810 in the United Kingdom

1810 in the United Kingdom:
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Events from the year 1810 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - George III
Prime Minister - Spencer Perceval (Tory)

Events

April - Rioting in London after the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett, MP, charged with libel against Parliament after calling for reform of the House of Commons.^[1]
3 May - Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.^[2]
8 July - Vere Street Coterie: Police raid a "molly house" in London and arrest several men for sodomy.
20–27 August - Battle of Grand Port: The French force the Royal Navy fleet attempting to blockade a harbour on Isle de France (Mauritius) to surrender.
October - King George III recognised as insane.
10 November - Paisley canal disaster in Scotland: A pleasure craft capsizes with the loss of 84 lives.^[3]
17 November - Anglo-Swedish War: Sweden declares war on the United Kingdom.
22 December - Eight crew of the Hoylake life-boat in the Mersey estuary are drowned on service.

Undated

General Union of Spinners organises strike action to raise wages in the smaller cotton centres to the Manchester level.
Chlorine named by Humphry Davy.
Rev. Dr. William Pearson establishes Temple Grove School at East Sheen,^[4] perhaps the earliest preparatory school in the country.
Sake Dean Mahomet opens the Hindoostanee Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London.^[5]

Ongoing

Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812
Peninsular War, 1808–1814

Publications

George Crabbe's epistolatory poem The Borough.
Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake.
Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.

Births

12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (died 1882)
15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
19 January - John Jones, poet and architect (died 1869)
24 January - Thomas Jones, missionary (died 1849)
10 March - Samuel Ferguson, poet and artist (died 1886)
29 September - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist (died 1865)

Deaths

24 February - Henry Cavendish, scientist (born 1731)
7 March - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (born 1750)
24 March - Mary Tighe, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1772)
3 April - Twm o'r Nant, Welsh dramatist and poet (born 1739)
21 May - Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (born 1728)
4 June - William Windham, Whig statesman (born 1750)
probable - William Cruickshank, Scottish military surgeon, chemist and inventor

References

↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 244. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ The Times (London) 1810-11-19 8144: 3.
↑ "History of Temple Grove School" (PDF). Retrieved 20 April 2012.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.

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1810 in Europe

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