1810 in the United Kingdom

1810 in the United Kingdom

Other years

1808 | 1809 | 1810 | 1811 | 1812

Sport

1810 English cricket season

Events from the year 1810 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III
• Prime Minister – Spencer Perceval (Tory)
• Parliament – 4th

Events

• April – rioting in London after the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett, MP, charged with libel against Parliament after calling for reform of the House of Commons.[1]
• 3 May – Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.[2]
• 8 July – Vere Street Coterie: Police raid a "molly house" in London and arrest 27 men for sodomy or attempted sodomy; a man and a boy are eventually hanged on conviction.
• 20–27 August – Battle of Grand Port: The French force the Royal Navy fleet attempting to blockade a harbour on Isle de France (Mauritius) to surrender.
• October – King George III recognised as insane.
• 10 November – Paisley canal disaster in Scotland: A pleasure craft capsizes with the loss of 84 lives.[3]
• 17 November – Anglo-Swedish War: Sweden declares war on the United Kingdom.
• 29 November – 3 December: Invasion of Isle de France – British forces oblige the French to surrender Isle de France (Mauritius).
• 14 December – the UK's strongest ever recorded tornado strikes Portsmouth with a top wind speed of 213 to 240 mph (343 to 386 km/h) (T8 (F4) rating).
• 22 December – eight crew of the Hoylake life-boat in the Mersey estuary are drowned on service.

Undated

• General Union of Spinners organises strike action to raise wages in the smaller cotton centres to the Manchester level.
• Chlorine named by Humphry Davy.
• Rev. Dr. William Pearson establishes Temple Grove School at East Sheen,[4] perhaps the earliest preparatory school in the country.
• Sake Dean Mahomet opens the Hindoostanee Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London.[5]

Ongoing

• Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
• Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812
• Peninsular War, 1808–1814

Publications

• George Crabbe's epistolatory poem The Borough.
• Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake.
• Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.

Births

• 12 January – John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (died 1882)
• 15 January – John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
• 19 January – John Jones, poet and architect (died 1869)
• 24 January – Thomas Jones, missionary (died 1849)
• 10 March – Samuel Ferguson, poet and artist (died 1886)
• 27 March - William Hepworth Thompson,classical Scholar (died 1886)
• 5 April - Sir Henry Rawlinson, politician and Orientalist (died 1895)
• 21 April - Thomas Wright, antiquarian (died 1877)
• July 17 - Martin Farquhar Tupper,poet and Writer (died 1889)
• 29 September – Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist (died 1865)

Deaths

• 26 January – James Martin, radical politician (born 1738)
• 24 February – Henry Cavendish, scientist (born 1731)
• 7 March – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (born 1750)
• 24 March – Mary Tighe, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1772)
• 3 April – Twm o'r Nant, Welsh dramatist and poet (born 1739)
• 21 May – Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (born 1728)
• 4 June – William Windham, Whig statesman (born 1750)
• probable – William Cruickshank, Scottish military surgeon, chemist and inventor

See also

• 1810 in Scotland

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 244. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. The Times (London) 1810-11-19 8144: 3.
4. "History of Temple Grove School" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
5. "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.