1805 in the United Kingdom

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1805 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 20 January - London Docks open. ^[1]
• 4 June - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
• 21 October - 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. ^[2]
• 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

• 27 January - Samuel Palmer, artist (d. 1881)
• 29 August - Frederick Maurice, theologian (d. 1872)
• 22 December - John Obadiah Westwood, entomologist (d. 1893)

[edit] Deaths

• 2 February - Thomas Banks, sculptor (b. 1735)
• 25 February - Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (b. 1722)
• 7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (b. 1737)
• 25 May - William Paley, philosopher (b. 1743)
• 3 August - Christopher Anstey, writer (b. 1724)
• 28 August - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (b. 1722)
• 5 October - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (b. 1738)
• 21 October - Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
• Unknown date - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1730)

[edit] References