1816 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1816 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Tory
[edit] Events
- 9 January - Sir Humphry Davy tested the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 27 August - Britain and the Netherlands bombard Algiers in an attempt to suppress slavery by the North African Barbary states.
- 2 December - Spa Fields riots: a mass meeting of conspirators dispersed by the police.[1]
[edit] Unknown dates
- The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
- A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
- Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.
- Completion of the Leeds to Liverpool canal.[2]
[edit] Publications
- Emma, novel by Jane Austen.[1]
- Kubla Khan, poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.[1]
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, sonnet by John Keats.[1]
- The Antiquary, The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality, novels by Walter Scott.
[edit] Births
- 21 April - Charlotte Brontë, novelist (d. 1855)
- 30 June - Richard Lindon, inventor (d. 1887)
- 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, scholar (d. 1897)
[edit] Deaths
- 27 January - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (b. 1724)
- 22 February - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
- 5 July - Dorothy Jordan, Irish actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761)
- 7 July - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (b. 1751)
- 15 December - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, statesman and scientist (b. 1753)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 365–366. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 248. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
