1818 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George III
- Prime Minister - Lord Liverpool (Tory)
Events
- 6 January - Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain.[1]
- 16 April - Court of King's Bench decides the case of Ashford v Thornton, upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle.[2][3]
- 23 July - The Crown agrees sale of its rights in the royal forest of Exmoor. Thomas Dyke Acland secures a herd of Exmoor ponies, the nucleus of the modern breed.
- 25 September - In London, Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood.[4]
- 20 October - A convention between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.
Undated
- Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.
- The Old Vic founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres.
- Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district.[5]
- First Chubb detector lock produced.[6]
Publications
- Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (posthumous; actually issued in December 1817).
- John Evelyn's Diary (posthumous).
- John Keats' poem Endymion (4 vols.)[1]
- Thomas Love Peacock's novel Nightmare Abbey (anonymous).
- Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (as by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham').
- Thomas Bowdler's expurgated The Family Shakspeare,[1] 2nd edn.
- Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (anonymous).[7]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems Ozymandias (published as by 'Glirastes' in The Examiner 11 January) and The Revolt of Islam (actually issued in December 1817).
- Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel The History of the Fairchild Family (vol. 1; anonymous).[7]
Births
- 18 January - George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer (died 1897)
- 21 February - George Wilson, chemist (died 1859)
- 22 March - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (died 1846)
- 11 June - Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903)
- 21 June - Sir Richard Wallace, art collector (died 1890)
- 30 July - Emily Brontë, novelist (died 1848)
- 24 December - James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)
Deaths
- 22 August - Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
- 17 November - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of George III (b. 1744)
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