1823 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1823 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

January - The King's Library, George III's personal library of 65,000 volumes, 19,000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawings, is offered to the British Museum.
23 January - In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland inspects the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial.^[1]
20 February - Explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74°15' S and longitude 34°16'45" W: the southernmost position any ship had reached before, a record that will hold for more than 80 years.
March - Royal Academy of Music opens.^[2]
17 June - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats.^[3]
July - Robert Peel ensures the passage of five Acts of Parliament, effectively abolishing the death penalty for over one hundred offences;^[2] in particular, the Judgement of Death Act allows judges to commute sentences for capital offences other than murder or treason to imprisonment or transportation.^[4]
4 July - Transportation Act allows convicts transported to the colonies to be employed on public works.^[2]
10 July - Gaols Act passed by Parliament, based on the prison reform campaign of Elizabeth Fry.^[2]
23 September - First Burmese War: Burmese attack the British on Shapura, an island close to Chittagong.
25 November - Opening of The Royal Suspension Chain Pier at Brighton, designed by Captain Samuel Brown, RN, the first pleasure pier on the mainland of England.^[5]
November - According to tradition, William Webb Ellis invents rugby.^[2]

Undated

Beginning of the first Anglo-Ashanti war.
Excise Act reduces duties on the distillation of whisky, encouraging its commercial production.

Publications

Thomas Campbell's poem The Last Man.
Thomas De Quincey's critical essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (in The London Magazine, October).
Mrs Markham's children's A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the End of the Reign of George III
Sir Walter Scott's novels Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward and St. Ronan's Well.
Thomas Wakley's medical journal The Lancet (first published 5 October ).

Births

8 January - Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist and biologist (died 1913)
13 August - Goldwin Smith, historian (died 1910)
3 September - Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, lawyer, Lord Chancellor (died 1921)

Deaths

26 January - Edward Jenner, physician and pioneer of vaccination (born 1749)
27 January - Charles Hutton, mathematician (born 1737)
7 February - Mrs Radcliffe, writer (born 1764)
26 February - John Philip Kemble, actor (born 1757)
14 March - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Royal Navy admiral (born 1735)
23 April - Joseph Nollekens, sculptor (born 1737)
19 June - William Combe, writer, poet and adventurer (born 1742)
8 July - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (born 1756)
11 September - David Ricardo, economist (born 1772)
23 September - Matthew Baillie, Scottish-born physician and pathologist (born 1761)
30 October - Edmund Cartwright, clergyman and inventor of the power loom (born 1743)

References

↑ Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (October 2001). "Great Sites: Paviland Cave". British Archaeology (61). Retrieved 2010-07-16.
1 2 3 4 5 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 252–253. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Timeline of capital punishment in Britain". Retrieved 2011-02-02.
↑ Drewry, Charles Stewart (1832). A Memoir of Suspension Bridges: comprising the History Of Their Origin And Progress. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. pp. 69–74 & Plates. Retrieved 2010-08-27.

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1823 in Europe

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