1828 in the United Kingdom

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1828 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1828 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Events

• January 22 - The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He repeals the Test Act, emancipating all Catholics, and introduces the Roman Catholic Relief Act the following year. (See also Tory Government 1828-1830.)
• September 29 - Police force of Sir Robert Peel starts in London - 101 uniformed officers and 5 civil servants.
• October 25 - St Katharine Docks opened in London.
• December 17 - Trial of the case of the body snatchers William Burke and William Hare begins.

• Henri Ollivier becomes the first Onion Johnny in England.

[edit] Births

• 18 March - William Randal Cremer, politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
• 12 May - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter (d. 1882)
• 31 October - Joseph Swan, physicist and chemist (d. 1914)

[edit] Deaths

• 16 May - William Congreve, inventor and rocket pioneer (born 1772)
• 21 July - Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1805–1828 (born 1755)
• 4 December - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)
• 22 December - William Hyde Wollaston, chemist (born 1766)