1819 in the United Kingdom

1819 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

Incumbents

• Monarch — King George III
• Prime Minister — Lord Liverpool, Tory

Events

• 6 February — Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.^[1]
• 19 February — William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.^[1]
• 20 March — Burlington Arcade opens in London.
• 20 June — The SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia, United States.^[1]
• 16 August — Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.^[2]

Undated

• Britannia Monument to Admiral Lord Nelson at Great Yarmouth (the "Norfolk Pillar") is completed.

Publications

• John Polidori's short story The Vampyre.
• Walter Scott's novels Ivanhoe, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose.

Births

• 8 February — John Ruskin, writer, artist, and social critic (died 1900)
• 11 March — Henry Tate, sugar magnate (died 1899)
• 28 March — Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer, (died 1891)
• 24 May — Queen Victoria (died 1901)
• 5 June — John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892)
• 12 June — Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875)
• 1 August — Richard Dadd, painter (died 1886)
• 13 August — George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
• 26 August — Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861)
• 22 November — George Eliot, novelist (died 1880)

Deaths

• 25 August — James Watt, inventor (born 1736)
• 6 November — Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales and second in line to the throne (born 1796)
• 22 November — John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742)
• 19 December — Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765)

References

See also

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