1805 in the United Kingdom

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1805 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland:

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Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

[edit] Events

• 20 January - London Docks open.^[1]
• 4 June - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.^[1]
• 3 August - The annual cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School played for the first time.^[1]
• 21 October - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.^[2]

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• John Dalton's Absorption of Gases, the first list of relative atomic masses published
• Charles Manners-Sutton enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

[edit] Births

• 27 January - Samuel Palmer, artist (died 1881)
• 29 August - Frederick Maurice, theologian (died 1872)
• 22 December - John Obadiah Westwood, entomologist (died 1893)

[edit] Deaths

• 2 January - Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733)
• 3 January - Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737)
• 30 January - John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
• 18 January - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730)
• 2 February - Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
• 25 February - Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722)
• 7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)
• 25 May - William Paley, philosopher (born 1743)
• 3 August - Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724)
• 28 August - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722)
• 5 October - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738)
• 21 October - Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758)

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