1802 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1802 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Henry Addington, Tory
[edit] Events
- 27 March - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.[1]
- 5 July to 28 August - General election brings victory for the Tories led by Henry Addington.
- August - West India Docks, first commercial docks in London, open.[2]
- 2 December - Factory Act (also known as the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act) regulates conditions of child workers in factories.[1]
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- Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.[1]
- London Fever Hospital founded.
- Sir William Herschel first uses the term binary star to refer to a star which revolves around another star.
- Thomas Wedgwood discovers a method of creating photographs using silver nitrate.[1]
- Goodwood Racecourse laid out.[2]
[edit] Publications
- The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, collection of Scottish ballads by Walter Scott.[1]
- "Westminster Bridge", poem by William Wordsworth.
[edit] Births
- 3 January - Charles Pelham Villiers, politician (died 1898)
- 6 February - Charles Wheatstone, scientist and inventor (died 1875)
- 7 March - Edwin Henry Landseer, painter (died 1873)
- 10 July - Robert Chambers, author and publisher (died 1871)
- 23 December - Sara Coleridge, scholar (died 1852)
[edit] Deaths
- 2 February - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, statesman (born 1713)
- 18 April - Erasmus Darwin, physician and botanist (born 1731)
- 9 November - Thomas Girtin, artist (born 1775)
- 15 November - George Romney, artist (born 1734)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 354. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 238-239. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
