1808 in the United Kingdom

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1808 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1808 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 4 References

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• 20 December - the original Covent Garden Theatre in London was destroyed by a fire along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.

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• West Africa Squadron established to suppress the slave trade along the coast of West Africa. ^[1]
• Barium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium isolated by Sir Humphry Davy.
• John Dalton publishes New System of Chemical Philosophy, explaining his atomic theory of chemistry.

[edit] Births

• 20 March - Charles Henry Cooper, antiquarian (d. 1866)
• 27 April - William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, politician (d. 1891)
• 2 May - Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin (d. 1896)
• 12 May - Edwin Abbott, educator (d. 1882)
• 11 June - James Ballantine, artist and author (d. 1877)
• 19 June - Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon, politician (d. 1884)
• 1 July - Henry Doubleday, entomologist and ornithologist (d. 1875)
• 15 July - Henry Cole, civil servant (d. 1882)
• 30 July - Frederick Nicholls Crouch, composer and cellist (d. 1896)
• 24 August - William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (d. 1884)
• 5 September - Arthur William Buller, Member of Parliament (d. 1869)
• 15 September - John Hutton Balfour, botanist (d. 1884)
• 6 November - Thomas Legh Claughton, academic, poet and clergyman (d. 1892)
• 22 November - Thomas Cook, travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)

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• George Wilshere, 1st Baron Bramwell, judge (d. 1892)
• Caroline Chisholm, humintarian (d. 1877)
• Henry Fothergill Chorley, critic (d. 1872)
• William Cureton, Orientalist (d. 1864)

[edit] Deaths

• 28 May - Richard Hurd, bishop and writer (b. 1720)
• 5 September - John Home, writer (b. 1722)
• 10 November - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
• Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (b. 1723)

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