1827 in the United Kingdom

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1827 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1827 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Fictional events 5 References

[edit] Events

• January 17 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. ^[1]
• March 1 - St David's College, now the University of Wales, Lampeter opens its doors to its first students.
• March 7 - Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins
• April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
• May 14 - Culprits of the Shrigley Abduction are sentenced for three years each
• May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
• July 6 - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
• August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the UK following the death of Canning (see also Goderich Ministry.)
• October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.

• Englishman John Walker invents Lucifer matches
• Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion. ^[2]

[edit] Births

• April 5 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (died 1912)
• May 4 - John Hanning Speke, explorer (died 1864)
• July 17 - Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist (died 1902)
• October 24 - George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Liberal Party politician (died 1909)
• Edward Bradley, writer (died 1889)
• Lydia Becker, suffragete (died 1890)
• Holman Hunt, William (died 1910)

[edit] Deaths

• 8 August - George Canning, Prime Minister (born 1770)
• 12 August - William Blake, poet, painter, and printmaker (born 1757).

[edit] Fictional events

• 12 May - the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club is formed. (Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers)

[edit] References