1828 in the United Kingdom

1828 in the United Kingdom

Other years

1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 | 1830

Sport

1828 English cricket season

Events from the year 1828 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George IV
• Prime Minister – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (Coalition) (until 21 January); Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (Tory) (starting 22 January)
• Parliament – 8th

Events

• 22 January – the Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister with a reforming Tory government.
• 17 April – Royal Free Hospital, established as the London General Institution for the Gratuitous Care of Malignant Diseases by surgeon William Marsden, opens.
• 27 April – London Zoo opens.[1]
• 9 May – Sacramental Test Act removes most prohibitions on nonconformists and Catholics holding public office.
• 21 June – King's College London founded.[2]
• 1 July – Offences against the Person Act 1828 ("Lord Lansdowne's Act") comes into force in England and Wales as one of "Peel's Acts", consolidating and simplifying the law related to cases of violent offence against the person, repealing clause XXXVI of Magna Carta and abolishing the crime of petty treason.
• 8 August – William Howley elected as Archbishop of Canterbury (enthroned by proxy 28 August) in succession to Charles Manners-Sutton.[3]
• 11 August – William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
• 1 October – James Beaumont Neilson patents the hot blast process for ironmaking.[4]
• 25 October – St Katharine Docks opened in London.
• 17 December – trial of the case of the murderers and body snatchers William Burke and William Hare begins in Edinburgh.[5]
• December – Mary Anning discovers Britain's first pterosaur fossil at Lyme Regis on the south coast.

Ongoing events

• Anglo-Ashanti war (1823–1831)

Undated

• Henri Ollivier becomes the first Onion Johnny in England.
• The Gentleman's Relish (or Patum Peperium), a type of anchovy paste, is created by John Osborn.[6]

Publications

• John Payne Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy.[1]
• Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series).

Births

• 18 March – William Randal Cremer, politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
• 12 May – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter (d. 1882)
• 31 October – Joseph Swan, physicist and chemist (d. 1914)

Deaths

• 3 February – Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet, Royal Navy Admiral (born 1760)
• 16 May – William Congreve, inventor and rocket pioneer (born 1772)
• 11 June – Dugald Stewart, philosopher (born 1753)
• 21 July – Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1805–1828 (born 1755)
• 4 December – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)
• 22 December – William Hyde Wollaston, chemist (born 1766)

See also

• 1828 in Scotland

References

1. "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Garrard, James (2004). Archbishop Howley 1828–1848. The Archbishops of Canterbury Series. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-4724-5133-0.
4. Gale, W.K.V. (1981). Ironmaking. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. p. 22. ISBN 0-85263-546-X.
5. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
6. National Trust (2007). Gentleman's Relish, and Other English Culinary Oddities: a Gourmet's Guide. Warrington: National Trust Books (Anova Books). p. 144. ISBN 1-905400-55-1.