1827 in the United Kingdom

1827 in the United Kingdom

Other years

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Sport

1827 English cricket season

Events from the year 1827 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George IV
• Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory) (until 9 April); George Canning (Coalition) (starting 10 April, until 8 August); F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (Coalition) (starting 31 August)
• Parliament – 8th

Events

• 17 January – The Duke of Wellington becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.[1]
• 1 March – St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, opens its doors to its first students.
• 7 March – Ellen Turner is abducted – the Shrigley abduction case begins.
• 7 April – John Walker begins selling his invention, the friction match.[1]
• 10 April – George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister following the latter's resignation due to ill health after almost fifteen years in office.[2]
• 14 May – culprits in the Shrigley abduction are sentenced to three years each.
• 18 May – Red Barn Murder in Suffolk: Maria Marten is shot by her lover.
• 21 May – launch of the London Standard newspaper.
• 6 July – Treaty of London between France, Britain and Russia to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
• 8 August – Prime Minister George Canning dies in office only 119 days after being appointed, making him the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history.
• 31 August – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich is appointed Prime Minister following the death of Canning, continuing the Canningite Government as the Goderich Ministry.
• 20 October – Battle of Navarino (Greek War of Independence): British, French and Russian naval forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.[1] This is the last naval action to be fought under sail alone.

Ongoing events

• Anglo-Ashanti war (1823–1831)

Undated

• The first of Peel's Acts begin to consolidate the criminal law. Hue and cry is abolished[3] and the setting of mantraps to catch poachers is made illegal.
• Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion.[4]
• Yorkshire Philosophical Society begins excavation of St Mary's Abbey, York, prior to construction of the Yorkshire Museum on part of the site.

Publications

• Thomas De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (in Blackwood's Magazine).
• Sir Walter Scott's (anonymous) stories Chronicles of the Canongate.

Births

• 14 January – Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band (died 1903)
• 24 February – Lydia Becker, suffragette (died 1890)
• 25 March – Edward Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), writer (died 1889)
• 2 April – Holman Hunt, painter (died 1910)
• 5 April – Joseph Lister, surgeon (died 1912)
• 4 May – John Hanning Speke, explorer (died 1864)
• 17 July – Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist (died 1902)
• 16 August – Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (died 1894)
• 24 October – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Liberal Party politician (died 1909)
• Henry Gray, anatomist (died 1861)

Deaths

• 2 January – John Mason Good, writer (born 1764)
• 5 January – Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, heir-presumptive to the throne (born 1763)
• 26 June – Samuel Crompton, inventor (born 1753)
• 8 August – George Canning, Prime Minister (born 1770)
• 12 August – William Blake, poet, painter and printmaker (born 1757)

See also

• 1827 in Scotland

References

1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Criminal Statutes Repeal Act, 7 and 8 Geo. IV. c. 27.
4. The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.