1829 in the United Kingdom

1829 in the United Kingdom

Other years

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Sport

1829 English cricket season

Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George IV
• Prime Minister – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (Tory)
• Parliament – 8th

Events

Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution, Aged 141 by William Heath: The Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel as Burke and Hare smother the Bill of Rights 1689 by the Roman Catholic Relief Act

• 8 January – hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke in Edinburgh. His associate William Hare, who has testified against him, is released.
• 26 January – first performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth; it will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.[1]
• 1–2 February – York Minster is extensively damaged in a fire started by Jonathan Martin (who is subsequently acquitted of arson on the grounds of insanity).[2]
• 21 March – a duel is fought between the Prime Minister (the Duke of Wellington) and George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, in Battersea Fields, provoked by the Duke's support for Catholic emancipation and foundation of the secular King's College London. Deliberately off-target shots are fired by both and honour is satisfied without injury.
• 27 March – Zoological Society of London receives its royal charter.
• April–September – the composer Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This includes (June) the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and (August) his trip to Fingal's Cave.[3]
• 13 April – passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act by Parliament of the United Kingdom granting Catholic Emancipation.[4]

Stephenson's Rocket at The Rainhill Trials (model)

• 5 June – slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
• 10 June – the Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race,[4] rowed at Henley-on-Thames.[5]
• 19 June – Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service.[4]
• 30 June – Henry Robinson Palmer files a patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.[6]
• 4 July – George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.[7]
• 2–3 August – the "Muckle Spate", a great flood of the River Findhorn which devastates much of Strathspey, Scotland, washing away many bridges.[8]
• 14 August – King's College London founded by Royal Charter
• 29 September – the first police officers of the Metropolitan Police Service, known by the nicknames "bobbies" or "peelers", go on patrol in London.[4]
• 8 October – George Stephenson's steam locomotive, The Rocket, defeats John Ericsson's Novelty and thus wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.[7]
• 4 December – in the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abet suttee in India are guilty of culpable homicide.
• 13 December – last British hanging for forgery – Thomas Maynard.
• Undated – last of the Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.

Ongoing events

• Anglo-Ashanti war (1823–1831)

Publications

• Thomas Carlyle's essay Signs of the Times.
• Thomas Love Peacock's novel The Misfortunes of Elphin (anonymous).
• Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein (anonymous).

Births

• 17 January – Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (died 1890)
• 10 April – William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (died 1912)
• 8 June – John Everett Millais, painter (died 1896)
• 16 June – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (died 1925)
• 14 July – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1896)
• John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (died 1904)

Deaths

• 25 January – William Shield, composer, violinist and violist (born 1748)
• 28 January – William Burke, murderer and grave robber, executed (born 1792 in Ireland)
• 8 May – Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, barrister, statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1759)
• 10 May – Thomas Young, physician and linguist (born 1773)
• 29 May – Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (born 1778)
• 27 June – James Smithson, mineralogist, chemist and sponsor of the Smithsonian Institution (born 1765)
• 28 December – Bill Richmond, bare-knuckle welterweight boxer (born 1763 in British America)

External links

• 1829 in Scotland

References

1. Gillan, Don (2007). "Longest Running Plays in London and New York". Retrieved 15 February 2011.
2. Balston, Thomas (1945). The Life of Jonathan Martin.
3. Grove, George (1 October 1904). "Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony". The Musical Times. 45 (740): 644. JSTOR 904111.
4. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
5. "Foundations of The Boat Race". The Xchanging Boat Race. Theboatrace.org. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
6. Thomson, Nick (2011). Corrugated Iron Buildings. Oxford: Shire Publications. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-7478-0783-4.
7. "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
8. Mcewen, Lindsey J.; Werritty, Alan (2007). "The Muckle Spate of 1829: the physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 32: 66–89. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00232.x.