1819 in the United Kingdom

"1819 in England" redirects here. For the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, see England in 1819.

1819 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch — George III
• Prime Minister — The Earl of Liverpool (Tory)

Events

• 6 February — Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.
• 19 February — William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.
• 20 March — Burlington Arcade opens in London.
• 21 April–end May — John Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci and most of his major odes.
• 20 June — The SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia, United States, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam.
• June — Act of Parliament to abolish private appeals following acquittals in criminal cases and to abolish trial by combat, in the aftermath of Ashford v Thornton (1818).
• 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.
• 19 September — Keats writes his ode To Autumn at Winchester.

Undated

• Britannia Monument to Admiral Lord Nelson at Great Yarmouth (the "Norfolk Pillar") is completed.
• The Travellers Club is established in London.

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 — Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet, sugar merchant and philanthropist (died 1899)
• 28 March — Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (died 1891)
• 24 May — Queen Victoria, born Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, queen regnant (died 1901)
• 5 June — John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892)
• 12 June — Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875)
• 1 August — Richard Dadd, painter (died insane 1886)
• 13 August — Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-born mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
• 26 August — Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (born at Coburg; died 1861)
• 5 September — Stillborn child to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born dead at Calais)
• 22 November — George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, novelist (died 1880)

Deaths

• 25 August — James Watt, Scottish-born inventor (born 1736)
• 22 November — John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742)
• 19 December — Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765; died at Naples)