1813 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1813 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - George III
Prime Minister - Lord Liverpool (Tory)

Events

16 January - 14 Luddites hanged at York.
24 January - The Philharmonic Society of London is formed, holding its first concert on 8 March.
1 June - War of 1812: HMS Shannon captures the USS Chesapeake.^[1]
6 June - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
21 June - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria - A British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78,000 with 96 guns under Wellington defeats a French force of 58,000 with 153 guns under Joseph Bonaparte to end the Peninsular War.
1 July - Indian trade monopoly of the British East India Company abolished.^[1]
5 July - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
21 July - Doctrine of the Trinity Act provides toleration for Unitarian worship.
September - Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate.
10 September - War of 1812: Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie.^[2]
5 October - War of 1812: William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada; native leader Tecumseh is killed in battle.
7 October - Peninsular War: British troops enter France.^[1]
13 October - Cape of Good Hope becomes a British colony.^[1]
21 October - Nelson Monument, Liverpool unveiled.
25 December - William Debenham joins Thomas Clark in a partnership to manage a draper's store in London, origin of the modern-day Debenhams department stores.
27 December–3 January 1814 - A thick fog blankets London causing the Prince Regent to turn back from a trip to Hatfield House and the Birmingham mail coach to take 7 hours to reach Uxbridge.^[3]
29 December - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
31 December
- The foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is sent to Germany with full powers to give assistance to the allies.
- Westminster Bridge in London is illuminated by gas lighting provided by the Gas Light and Coke Company from the world's first public gasworks nearby.^[4]

Ongoing

Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
Peninsular War, 1808–1814

Undated

Last striking of guinea coins, to pay Wellington's army in the Pyrenees.
The early steam locomotive Puffing Billy introduced at Wylam colliery, County Durham.^[1]
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne established.
Charles Waterton begins the process of turning his estate at Walton Hall, West Yorkshire, into what is, in effect, the world's first nature reserve.^[5]

Publications

28 January - Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.^[6]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Queen Mab.
Robert Owen's A New View of Society: Essays on the Formation of Human Character.

Births

4 January - Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand (died 1897)
19 January - Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor (died 1898)
19 March - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (died 1873)
21 May - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (died 1843)
19 December - Thomas Andrews, chemist (died 1885)
John Jabez Edwin Mayall, photographer (died 1901)

Deaths

17 June - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, sailor and politician (born 1726)
6 July - Granville Sharp, abolitionist (born 1735)
11 August
- Henry James Pye, poet (born 1745)
- John Price, Welsh librarian (born 1735)
23 August - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (born 1766)
4 September - James Wyatt, architect (born 1746)

References

1 2 3 4 5 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 246–247. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. p. 483. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
↑ "Gas Light and Coke Co.". Grace's Guide. 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
↑ Blackburn, Julia (1989). Charles Waterton, 1782-1865: traveller and conservationist. London: The Bodley Head. pp. 52–9. ISBN 0-370-31248-1.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.

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1813 in Europe

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