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UK-related events during the year of 1825
Events from the year
1825 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 March – a fire destroys the outbound
East Indiaman
Kent in the
Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but passing ships save over 550.
21 March –
British première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1824) is presented by the
Philharmonic Society of London at its
Argyll Rooms conducted by
Sir George Smart (and with the choral "
Ode to Joy " sung in Italian).
23 April –
royal charter granted to the
Geological Society of London .
[1]
15 June – work on the new
London Bridge , designed by
John Rennie , begins.
22 June –
Cotton Mills Regulation Act establishes a maximum of 12-hour day for children under 16.
[2]
6 July – A new
Combinations of Workmen Act makes
Trades unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.
July – England and Wales' dryest July on record, with a rainfall average of 8.2mm; from 14–19 July consecutively, the daytime maxima in London exceed 90 °F (32 °C).
18 August – Scottish adventurer
Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious
Central American republic of Poyais. His actions lead to the
Panic of 1825 , the first modern
stock market crash , starting in the
Bank of England and precipitating the closure of six
London banks and sixty country ones in England.
15 September – royal charter granted to the
Royal Society of Literature .
[1]
27 September – the world's first modern railway, the
Stockton and Darlington Railway , opens with engineer
George Stephenson driving the first public train pulled by the steam engine
Locomotion No 1 .
[3]
21 October –
PS Comet II sinks off
Gourock in the
Firth of Clyde with the loss of 62 lives.
10 November – royal charter granted to the
Van Diemen's Land Company .
[1]
19 December – first of the annual
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London, which will continue for two centuries.
Undated
Publications
Births
10 February –
Geoffrey Hornby , admiral (died 1895)
22 February –
Elizabeth Ferard , Anglican deaconess (died 1883)
14 March –
Elizabeth Anne Finn , writer on the Holy Land and humanitarian (died 1921)
28 March –
A. J. Mundella , hosiery manufacturer and reforming Liberal politician (died 1897)
March –
William McGonagall , Scottish doggerel 'poet and tragedian' (died 1902)
24 April –
R. M. Ballantyne , Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
1 May –
Eleanor Vere Boyle , watercolourist and illustrator (died 1916)
4 May –
Thomas Henry Huxley , biologist (died 1895)
8 May –
George Bruce Malleson , colonel and writer on India (died 1898)
9 May –
James Collinson , Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1881)
7 June –
R. D. Blackmore , novelist (died 1900)
24 June –
William Henry Smith , founder of bookseller
W H Smith and politician (died 1891)
13 October –
Charles Frederick Worth , fashion designer, father of haute couture (died 1895 in France)
23 December (probable year) –
Lord George Sanger , showman (killed 1911)
Deaths
22 February –
Eleanor Anne Porden , poet (born 1795)
24 February –
Thomas Bowdler , editor and physician (born 1754)
6 March –
Samuel Parr , schoolmaster (born 1747)
7 March –
Samuel Best , self-proclaimed prophet (born 1738)
[6]
27 March –
Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres , general (born 1752)
13 May –
Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth , diplomat (born 1752)
27 June –
Edward Pigott , astronomer (born 1753)
20 August –
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock , admiral, Governor of Newfoundland (born 1753)
4 September –
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (born 1748)
25 October –
David Bogue , nonconformist leader (born 1750)
7 November –
Charlotte Dacre , Gothic novelist (born c. 1772)
References
Further reading