1805 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Events
- June 4 - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
- October 21 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.
- Unknown date - Horse Patrol, mounted law enforcement force, founded in London.
- John Dalton's Absorption of Gases, the first list of relative atomic masses published
[edit] Births
- January 27 - Samuel Palmer, artist (d. 1881)
- August 29 - Frederick Maurice, theologian (d. 1872)
- December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, entomologist (d. 1893)
[edit] Deaths
- February 25 - Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (b. 1722)
- May 7 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (b. 1737)
- May 25 - William Paley, philosopher (b. 1743)
- August 3 - Christopher Anstey, writer (b. 1724)
- August 28 - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (b. 1722)
- October 5 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (b. 1738)
- October 21 - Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
- Unknown date - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1730)
