1819 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch — George III
Prime Minister — The Earl of Liverpool (Tory)

Events

6 February — Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.^[1]
19 February — William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.^[1]
20 March — Burlington Arcade opens in London.
21 April–end May — John Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci and most of his major odes.^[2]
20 June — The SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia, United States, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam.^[1]
June — Act of Parliament to abolish private appeals following acquittals in criminal cases and to abolish trial by combat, in the aftermath of Ashford v Thornton (1818).^[3]
16 August — Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.^[4]
19 September — Keats writes his ode To Autumn at Winchester.^[2]

Undated

Britannia Monument to Admiral Lord Nelson at Great Yarmouth (the "Norfolk Pillar") is completed.
The Travellers Club is established in London.

Publications

John Polidori's short story The Vampyre.
Walter Scott's novels Ivanhoe, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose.

Births

8 February — John Ruskin, writer, artist and social critic (died 1900)
11 March — Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet, sugar merchant and philanthropist (died 1899)
28 March — Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (died 1891)
24 May — Queen Victoria, born Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, queen regnant (died 1901)
5 June — John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892)
12 June — Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875)
1 August — Richard Dadd, painter (died insane 1886)
13 August — Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-born mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
26 August — Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (born at Coburg; died 1861)
5 September — Stillborn child to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born dead at Calais)^[5]
22 November — George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, novelist (died 1880)

Deaths

25 August — James Watt, Scottish-born inventor (born 1736)
22 November — John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742)
19 December — Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765; died at Naples)

References

1 2 3 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 Keats, John (1973). Barnard, John, ed. The Complete Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin Education. ISBN 0-14-080668-7.
↑ Megarry, Robert (2005). A New Miscellany-at-Law. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 978-1-58477-631-4.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
↑ Ziegler, Philip (1971). King William IV. London: Collins. p. 126. ISBN 0-00-211934-X.

Years in the United Kingdom

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1819 in Europe

Sovereign states	Andorra Austria Baden Denmark France Germany Hungary Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Papal States Portugal Prussia Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta

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