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   Date  Event(s)
1 1803 
  • 12 May 1803—1815: Peace of Amiens ends - resumption of war with France - The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
2 1804 
  • Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed "Australia"
  • 21 Feb 1804: Richard Trevithick runs his railway engine on the Penydarren Railway (9.5 miles from Pen-y-Darren to Abercynon in South Wales) – this hauled a train with 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers. It was commemorated by the Royal Mint in 2004 in the form of a £2.00 coin.
  • 3 Mar 1804: John Wedgwood (eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood) founds The Royal Horticultural Society
  • 2 Dec 1804: Napoleon declares himself Emperor of the French
  • 12 Dec 1804: Spain declares war on Britain
3 1805 
  • London docks opened
  • 21 Oct 1805: Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
  • 2 Dec 1805: Battle of Austerlitz; Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians
4 1806 
  • Dartmoor Prison opened (built by French prisoners)
  • 9 Jan 1806: Nelson buried in St Paul's cathedral, London
5 1807 
  • 25 Mar 1807: Parliament passes Act prohibiting slavery and the importation of slaves from 1808 – but does not prohibit colonial slavery
6 1808 
  • Gas lighting in London streets
  • 13 Jul 1808: 'Hot Wednesday' – temperature of 101°F in the shade recorded in London
  • 20 Dec 1808: Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
7 1809 
  • 12 Feb 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
  • 18 Sep 1809: Royal Opera House opens in London
8 1810 
  • John McAdam begins road construction in England, giving his name to the process of road metalling
9 1811 
  • 5 Feb 1811: Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
10 1812 
  • 11 May 1812: Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated – shot as he entered the House of Commons by a bankrupt Liverpool broker, John Bellingham, who was subsequently hanged
  • 18 Jun 1812: Start of American "War of 1812" (to 1814) against England and Canada
  • Oct 1812: Napoleon retreats from Moscow with catastrophic losses
11 1813 
  • Ireland: First recorded "12th of July" sectarian riots in Belfast
  • Jane Austen wrote "Pride and Prejudice"
12 1814 
  • 1 Jan 1814: Invasion of France by Allies
  • 6 Apr 1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
  • 13 Aug 1814: Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch
  • 24 Aug 1814: The British burn the White House
  • 29 Nov 1814: "The Times" first printed by a 'mechanical apparatus' (at 1,100 sheets per hour)
  • 24 Dec 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed ending the 1812 war between Britain and the US
13 1815 
  • Trial by Jury established in Scotland
  • Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
  • 18 Jun 1815: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
14 1816 
  • Income tax abolished
  • For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially below their face value – the first official 'token' coinage
  • Climate: the 'year without a summer' – followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain "Tambora" in Indonesia the previous year, the biggest volcanic explosion in 10,000 years
  • Large scale emigration to North America
  • Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
15 1817 
  • March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
  • Constable painted "Flatford Mill"
16 1818 
  • Manchester cotton spinners' strike
  • 20 Oct 1818: 'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length
17 1819 
  • Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular
  • Britain returns to gold standard
  • Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles
  • May 1819: SS "Savannah" first steamship to cross Atlantic, reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 days, mostly under sail)
  • 16 Aug 1819: Peterloo Massacre at Manchester – a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester – demand Parliamentary Reform – mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others
18 1820 
  • Cato Street Conspiracy – plot to assissinate British cabinet
  • Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition
  • 29 Jan 1820: Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
  • 1 Aug 1820: Regent's Canal in London opens
  • 17 Aug 1820: Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her – George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her – Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords
  

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