1803 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1803 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Events
- January 4 - William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat".
- February 21 - Edward Despard and six others are hanged, drawn and quartered for plotting to assassinate king George III and to destroy the Bank of England.
- May 18 - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France after France refused to withdraw from Dutch territory.
- July 23 - Robert Emmet's uprising in Ireland begins.
- July 26 - The wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon is opened, being the first public railway line of the world.
- August 3 - British begin Second Anglo-Maratha War against Sindhia of Gwalior
- September 20 - Irish rebel Robert Emmet is executed.
- September 23 - The Battle of Assaye in India – British-lead troops defeat Maratha forces
[edit] Births
- May 25 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
- June 24 - George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
- December 6 - Susanna Moodie, writer (d. 1885)
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
- April 2 - Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, politician and judge (b. 1721)
- October 26 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, politician (b. 1721)
- November 23 - Roger Newdigate, politician (b. 1719)
