1829 in the United Kingdom

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1829 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Events

• 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

[edit] Births

• 17 January - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (d. 1890)
• 10 April - William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (d. 1912)
• 14 July - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
• John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (d. 1904)

[edit] Deaths

• 28 January - William Burke, murderer and grave robber, executed (b. 1792, Ireland)
• 10 May - Thomas Young, physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 29 May - Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (b. 1778)
• 27 June - James Smithson, mineralogist, chemist and founder of the Smithsonian Institute (b. 1765)