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United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1819
"1819 in England" redirects here. For the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, see
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)
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 , political writer and lawyer (born 1751)
22 November –
John Stackhouse , botanist (born 1742)
17 December –
Charles Finch (MP) , politician (born 1752)
19 December –
Sir Thomas Fremantle , naval officer and politician (born 1765; died at
Naples )
References
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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 . P. S. King & Son.
^
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 | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 14 May 2023 .