1818 in the United Kingdom

1818 in the United Kingdom

Other years

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Sport

1818 English cricket season

Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III
• Regent – George, Prince Regent
• Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
• Parliament – 5th (until 10 June), 6th (starting 4 August)

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] Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight.
• 11 May – the Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres.
• 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 of the former 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.
• 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)
• 28 January – Alfred Stevens, sculptor (died 1875)
• 14 February – Emperor Norton, eccentric (died 1880 in the United States)
• 21 February – George Wilson, chemist (died 1859)
• 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, 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)[8]
• 24 December – James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)

Deaths

• 6 March – John Gifford, political writer (born 1758)
• 24 March – Humphry Repton, garden designer (born 1752)
• 14 or 16 May – Matthew Lewis, Gothic writer (born 1775)
• 11 August – Robert Carr Brackenbury, Methodist preacher (born 1752)
• 22 August – Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India (born 1732)
• 1 September – Robert Calder, naval officer (born 1745)
• 9 September – Seymour Fleming, noblewoman of scandalous reputation, in France (born 1758)
• 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of George III (born 1744)

See also

• 1818 in Scotland

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 249–250. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Hall, Sir John (1926). Trial of Abraham Thornton. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co. Ltd.
3. Megarry, Sir Robert (2005). A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 1-58477-631-5. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
4. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
5. "Besses o' th' Barn Band". Besses o' th' Barn Band. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
6. Baren, Maurice (1997). How Household Names Began. London: Michael O'Mara Books. pp. 43–5. ISBN 1-85479-257-1.
7. "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
8. "Emily Bronte | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2019.