1801 in the United Kingdom

1801 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland:
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Events from the year 1801 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Incumbents

Monarch - George III
Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger (Tory) (until 14 March), Henry Addington (Tory) (starting 14 March)

Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night (1801)

Events

1 January - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and abolition of the Parliament of Ireland.^[1]
14 January - Britain places embargoes on vessels of the Second League of Armed Neutrality of the North.
2 February - Parliament of the United Kingdom meets for the first time.^[2]
5 February - William Pitt the Younger tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.^[1]
1 March - London Stock Exchange founded^[1] as a regulated institution; its new building is completed on 30 December.
8 March - Second Battle of Abukir: a British army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops.^[1]
10 March - The first British census is carried out. The population of England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million,^[3] with London revealed to have 860,035 residents.
14 March - William Pitt the Younger resigns over Catholic Emancipation, having first tendered his resignation on 5 February.
17 March - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth becomes Prime Minister.^[1]
21 March - Battle of Alexandria: Abercromby's forces defeat those of the French in the Egyptian city of Alexandria.^[1]
2 April - Battle of Copenhagen in the War of the Second Coalition: The Royal Navy under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker forces the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy to accept an armistice. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson leads the main attack, deliberately disregarding his commander's signal to withdraw.^[1]
19 May - Nelson is created Viscount Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, for his part in the strategic victory at Copenhagen.^[4]
18 June - Cairo falls to British troops.^[1]
6 July - Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet achieves victory over the British.
12 July - Second Battle of Algeciras: The British fleet defeats the French and Spanish.
18 July - Matthew Flinders sets out on a voyage to produce a detailed survey of the coastline of Australia, the southern coast of which is still unknown.^[5]
30 September - The Treaty of London is signed for peace between the First French Republic and the United Kingdom as a preliminary to the Treaty of Amiens.
26 November - Charles Hatchett announces his discovery of the chemical element niobium to the Royal Society.^[1]
24 December - Richard Trevithick demonstrates the first steam-powered vehicle to carry passengers at Camborne.^[1]

Ongoing

Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808
French Revolutionary Wars, War of the Second Coalition

Undated

Dalton's law - John Dalton observes that the total pressure exerted by a gaseous mixture is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of each individual component in a gas mixture.
Thomas Young discovers the interference of light.^[6]
Maria Edgworth's novel Belinda is published.^[7]
Henry James Pye's epic poem Alfred is published.^[8]

Births

4 January - James Giles, painter (died 1870)
14 January - Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter-writer (died 1866)
2 February - George Maclean, Governor of Cape Coast (died 1847)
7 February - John Rylands, weaver, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (died 1888)
13 February - Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer, politician, diplomat and writer (died 1872)
21 February - John Henry Newman, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1890)
24 April - Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury, politician (died 1893)
28 April - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and philanthropist (died 1885)
9 May - Samuel Cousins, engraver (died 1887)
4 June - James Pennethorne, architect (died 1871)
10 June - Joseph Rowntree, educationist (died 1859)
24 June - Caroline Clive, author (died 1872)
29 July - George Bradshaw, publisher (died 1853)
15 August - Charles Elliot, naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator (died 1875)
27 December - Charles Clay, surgeon (died 1893)
date unknown
- Charles George James Arbuthnot, general, born at sea (died 1870)
- Horatio Thomas Austin, Royal Navy officer and explorer (died 1865)
- Manton Eastburn, bishop in the Episcopal Church (United States) (died 1872)

Deaths

28 March - Ralph Abercromby, general (born 1734)
2 April - Thomas Dadford, Jr., engineer (year of birth unknown)
17 May - William Heberden, physician (born 1710)
14 June - Benedict Arnold, spy and Army officer (born 1741, Connecticut Colony)
7 July - William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, statesman (born 1731)
9 September - Gilbert Wakefield, scholar (born 1756)
Autumn - David Levi, scholar (born 1742)

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1801". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Chronology of State Medicine". Archived from the original on 9 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 15366. p. 549. 19 May 1801. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
↑ "British History Timeline, BBC History". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

Years in the United Kingdom

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1801 in Europe

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