1819 in the United Kingdom United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1819
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England in 1819 .
Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
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 in the Antarctic.[ 1]
20 March – Burlington Arcade opens in London .
13 April – the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway , a wagonway , opens for coal traffic.
14 April – the streets of Birmingham are lit by gas for the first time by the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company .
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]
22 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]
2 July – Cotton Mills and Factories Act passed, a first attempt to regulate employment of young children in textile mills.[ 4]
24 July – a cabinet meeting convened by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool discusses an investigative report of an adulterous affair involving Caroline of Brunswick (wife of the regent George, Prince of Wales ) and her servant Bartolomeo Pergami; the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.[ 5]
16 August – Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester : a cavalry charge into a crowd of radical protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.[ 6]
19 September – Keats writes his ode "To Autumn " at Winchester .[ 2]
23 November–30 December – Six Acts passed by Parliament to suppress assemblies promoting radical reform.
Undated
Publications
Births
Queen Victoria 1 January – Arthur Hugh Clough , poet (died 1861 in Italy)
9 January – William Powell Frith , genre painter (died 1909)
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
24 May – Queen Victoria (died 1901)[ 8]
5 June – John Couch Adams , astronomer (died 1892)
12 June – Charles Kingsley , novelist (died 1875)
8 July – Leopold McClintock , Irish-born Arctic explorer and admiral (died 1907)
1 August – Richard Dadd , painter (died 1886)
13 August – George Stokes , 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 )[ 9]
26 September – Edward Watkin , railway manager and politician (died 1901)
22 November – George Eliot , born Mary Ann Evans, novelist (died 1880)
Undated – Baxter Langley , radical political activist (died 1892)
Deaths
14 January – John Wolcot , satirist and poet (born 1738)
17 February – Henry Constantine Jennings , collector and gambler (born 1731)
13 March – Charles Wyatt , politician and architect (born 1758)
2 May – Mary Moser , painter (born 1744)
8 June – George Barclay , politician (born c. 1759)
20 July – John Playfair , natural philosopher (born 1748)
25 August – James Watt , Scottish inventor (born 1736)[ 10]
7 September – Lumpy Stevens , cricketer (born 1735)
1 October – William Speechly , horticulturalist (born 1735)
30 October – John Bowles , conservative writer and lawyer (born 1753)
22 November – John Stackhouse , botanist (born 1742)
17 December – Hon. Charles Finch , politician (born 1752)
19 December – Sir Thomas Fremantle , admiral and politician (born 1765; died at Naples )
References
^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 ^ a b 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 ^ Hutchins, B. L.; Harrison, A. (1911). A History of Factory Legislation ^ David, Saul (2000). Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency . Grove Press. p. 388.^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820" . Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007 .^ "BBC - History - Joseph Bazalgette" . BBC. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .^ "Queen Victoria" . Westminster Abbey . Retrieved 7 October 2022 .^ Ziegler, Philip (1971). King William IV . London: Collins. p. 126. ISBN 0-00-211934-X ^ "James Watt | Biography, Inventions, Steam Engine, Significance, & Facts" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 14 May 2023 .
