1818 In The United Kingdom

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)
* Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
* Parliament – 5th (until 10 June), 6th (starting 4 August)

Events

* 2 January – Institution of Civil Engineers founded.
* 6 January – Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain.
* 3 February – Jeremiah Chubb is granted a patent for the Chubb detector lock.
* 11 February – Marie André Cantillon attempts to assassinate the Duke of Wellington in Paris.
* 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. 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.
* 30 May – Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.
* 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 – Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood, in London.
* 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 – Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district.

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.)
* 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'', 2nd edn.
* Mary Shelley's novel ''Frankenstein'' (anonymous).
* 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).

Births

* 2 January – Priscilla Horton, contralto, dancer and actress-manager (died 1895)
* 18 January – George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer (died 1897)
* 24 January – John Mason Neale, Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter (died 1866)
* 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)
* 10 March – William Menelaus, mechanical engineer (died 1882)
* 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer of South Australia (died 1846)
* 19 April – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, Liberal politician and writer (died 1883)
* 23 April – James Anthony Froude, religious controversialist and historian (died 1894)
* 1 May – Lyon Playfair, chemist and Liberal politician (died 1898)
* 11 June – Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903)
* 20 June – Eugenius Birch, civil engineer specialising in seaside pleasure piers (died 1884)
* 21 June – Richard Wallace, francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
* 11 July – William Edward Forster, Liberal politician (died 1886)
* 22 July – Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887)
* 30 July – Emily Brontë, novelist and poet (died 1848)
* 3 October – Alexander Macmillan, publisher (died 1896)
* 7 December – John Blackwood, publisher (died 1879)
* 24 December
** Eliza Cook, writer, poet and radical campaigner (died 1889)
** James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)

Deaths

* 6 March – John Gifford, loyalist political writer (born 1758)
* 24 March – Humphry Repton, garden designer (born 1752)
* 14 or 16 May – Matthew "Monk" 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, admiral (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

{{Year in Europe, 1818

Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom