1829 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom.
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- January 8 - Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke - his associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released
- June 5 - slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- June 10 - University of Oxford win the first Boat Race.
- October 8 - George Stephenson's steam locomotive, The Rocket, defeats John Ericsson's The Novelty and thus wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.
- December 4 - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
- December 13 - Last British hanging for forgery – Thomas Maynard
- The last of the HMAV Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.
- Peel's Metropolitan Police Act institutes Bobbies
