1811 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1811 in the United Kingdom. This is a Census year and the start of the British Regency.
Contents
Incumbents
- Monarch - George III
- Prime Minister - Spencer Perceval (Tory)
Events
- 1 February - Bell Rock Lighthouse begins operation off the coast of Scotland.[1]
- 5 February - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent[1] because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III. He is known as the Prince Regent and this is the beginning of the Regency period.[2]
- 21 February - The John and Jane, carrying troops bound for the Peninsular War, is accidentally run down and sunk by HMS Franchise off Lizard Point, Cornwall with the loss of a majority of the 300 on board.[3]
- 13 March - Battle of Lissa: British fleet defeats the French.
- 25–27 March - Battle of Anholt: British naval forces defeat those of Denmark.
- 4 April - Huddersfield Narrow Canal completed by opening of Standedge Tunnel under the Pennines, the longest (5,413 yards (4,950 m)), deepest and highest canal tunnel in Britain.[4]
- 27 May - The second national Census reveals that the population of England and Wales has increased in ten years by over a million to 10.1 million.[5]
- 18 June - The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists leave the established Church of England by ordaining their own ministers in Bala, North Wales.
- 8 September - The first known landing on Rockall is made by a party from HMS Endymion.[6][7]
- 16 October - National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales established by the Church of England to promote a system of National Schools.
- November - Luddite uprisings begin in northern England and Midlands.[8]
- 4 December - Royal Navy frigate HMS Saldanha (1809) is driven in a gale onto rocks in Lough Swilly in Ireland with no survivors from the estimated 253 aboard.[9]
- 7–19 December - Ratcliff Highway murders in London.
Ongoing
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
- Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812
- Anglo-Swedish War 1810–1812
- Peninsular War, 1808–1814
Undated
- Highland Clearances: The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland begin mass expulsion of crofting tenants from their Scottish Highland estates.[10][11]
- Building of Regent Street begins John Nash's development of the West End of London.[12]
- The first complete ichthyosaur fossil is found by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis.
Publications
- Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility ('by a lady').
- Francis Place's Illustrations and Proofs of the Principles of Population, including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others, the first significant text in English to advocate contraception.[13]
Births
- 9 January - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, writer (died 1856)
- 6 February - Henry Liddell, academic and cleric (died 1898)
- 24 February - Edward Dickinson Baker, United States Senator from Oregon from 1860 (died 1861 in the United States)
- 7 June - James Simpson, Scottish obstetrician and pioneer of anaesthesia (died 1870)
- 13 June - Owen Stanley, Royal Navy officer (died 1850)
- 13 July - James "paraffin" Young, Scottish chemist (died 1883)
- 18 July - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (died 1863)
- 21 December - Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1882)
Deaths
- 9 February - Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (born 1732)
- 14 March - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1735)
- 7 May - Richard Cumberland, dramatist (born 1732)
- 28 May - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, minister (born 1742)
- 27 November - Andrew Meikle, engineer (born 1719)
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