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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1800
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Events from the year 1800 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
Assassination attempt against
King George III , 15 May 1800.
January –
Maria Edgeworth 's first extended work of fiction, the pioneering
historical novel
Castle Rackrent , is published anonymously in London.
8 January – first
soup kitchens open in London.
[2]
13 January –
Royal Institution granted a
royal charter .
[3]
March –
Robert Bloomfield 's popular poem The Farmer's Boy is published.
[4]
17 March –
HMS Queen Charlotte (1790) catches fire off the coast of
Cabrera, Balearic Islands , with the loss of 700 lives.
[3]
22 March – Company of Surgeons granted a
royal charter to become the
Royal College of Surgeons in London .
[3]
15 May –
George III survives two assassination attempts in London: In
Hyde Park , a bullet intended for him hits a man standing alongside; and later at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , two bullets fired by an insane man (
James Hadfield ) hit the wooden panel behind him.
[5]
30 June –
Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the
City of Glasgow Police , which first musters on 15 November.
2 July & 1 August –
Acts of Union 1800 : The complementary Union with Ireland Act 1800, an
Act of the
Parliament of Great Britain , and Act of Union (Ireland) 1800, an Act of the
Parliament of Ireland , are passed by the respective legislatures, to unite the
Kingdom of Ireland and
Kingdom of Great Britain into the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with effect from 1 January
1801 .
[6]
[7]
[8] The latter Act achieves its majority of 43 in the
Irish House of Commons (which will be abolished under the measures) partly through the
bribing of former opponents by the award of
peerages and
honours .
[9] The British act is given
royal assent by King
George III in August.
Catholic emancipation has been promised as part of the legislation by
William Pitt (the British Prime Minister),
Lord Cornwallis (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) and
Lord Castlereagh (Chief Secretary of Ireland) but they are forced to drop it by the King leading to their resignations.
[10]
28 July – two acts of Parliament are passed in response to
James Hadfield 's assassination attempt on the King: the
Criminal Lunatics Act requires and provides a procedure for the indefinite detention of mentally ill offenders; and the
Treason Act aligns procedures for the trial of anyone attempting to take the monarch's life with those for murder in general.
[11]
4 September –
Siege of Malta (1798–1800) : The
French garrison in
Valletta surrenders to British troops who have been called at the invitation of the
Maltese . The islands of
Malta and
Gozo become the
Malta Protectorate .
[12]
22 September –
Downing College, Cambridge , granted a Royal Charter, the first new college there for two centuries.
December – Queen
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz introduces a
Christmas tree at a party for children at
Windsor .
[13]
Ongoing
Undated
Births
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Edwin Chadwick
Henry Fox Talbot
1 January –
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died
1857 )
4 January –
Charles Baillie-Hamilton , politician (died
1865 )
6 January –
George Thomas Doo , engraver (died
1886 )
12 January –
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon , diplomat and statesman (died
1870 )
24 January –
Edwin Chadwick , social reformer (died
1890 )
27 January –
Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington , statesman (died
1875 )
1 February –
Brian Houghton Hodgson , naturalist and civil servant (died
1894 )
11 February –
Henry Fox Talbot , photographic pioneer (died
1877 )
12 February –
John Edward Gray , zoologist (died
1875 )
23 February –
William Jardine , naturalist (died
1874 )
4 March –
William Price , physician and eccentric (died
1893 )
10 March
15 April –
James Clark Ross , Royal Navy officer and explorer (died
1862 )
16 April
4 May –
John McLeod Campbell , churchman (died
1872 )
8 May –
William Lovett , Chartist leader (died
1877 )
9 May –
Samuel Carter Hall , journalist (died
1889 )
28 May –
Edward Baines , newspaper editor and Member of Parliament (died
1890 )
1 June –
Charles Fremantle , Royal Navy officer (died
1869 )
9 June –
James Wilson Carmichael , marine painter (died
1868 )
30 June –
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury , Lord Chancellor (died
1873 )
22 July –
Robert McCormick , Royal Navy surgeon and explorer (died 1890)
29 July –
George Bradshaw , cartographer and timetable publisher (died 1853)
22 August –
Edward Bouverie Pusey , churchman (died
1882 )
10 September –
Edwin Guest , antiquary (died
1880 )
12 September –
John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died 1879)
22 September
30 September –
Decimus Burton , architect and garden designer (died
1881 )
11 October –
William Calcraft , hangman (died
1879 )
18 October –
Henry Taylor , dramatist (died
1886 )
25 October –
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay , poet (died
1859 )
4 November –
George Long , classical scholar (died
1879 )
18 November –
John Nelson Darby , evangelist (died 1882)
4 December –
William Fenwick Williams , military leader (died 1883)
20 December –
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax , statesman (died
1885 )
25 December –
John Phillips , geologist (died
1874 )
27 December –
John Goss , organist and composer (died
1880 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
William Jones
6 January –
William Jones , divine (born
1726 )
22 January –
George Steevens , Shakespearean commentator (born
1736 )
23 February –
Joseph Warton , academic and literary critic (born
1722 )
14 March –
Daines Barrington , naturalist (born
1727 )
25 April –
William Cowper , poet (born
1731 )
23 May –
Henry Cort , ironmaster (born
1741? )
30 June –
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney , politician (born
1732 )
16 August –
Samuel Barrington , admiral (born
1729 )
25 August –
Elizabeth Montagu , literary critic (born
1720 )
5 November –
Jesse Ramsden , astronomical instrument maker (born
1735 )
30 November –
Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby , eccentric nobleman (born
1712 )
26 December –
Mary Robinson , poet, actress and royal mistress (born
1756 )
27 December –
Hugh Blair , Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born
1718 )
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