1802 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1802 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Prime Minister – Henry Addington (Tory)
- Parliament – 1st (until 29 June), 2nd (starting 31 August)
Events
- 27 March – Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.[1]
- 15 April – William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a host of daffodils which inspire his best-known poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.[2]
- 19 April – Joseph Grimaldi first presents his white-faced clown character "Joey", at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.[3]
- 5 July – André-Jacques Garnerin and Edward Hawke Locker make a 17-mile (27.4-km) balloon flight from Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London, to Chingford in just over 15 minutes.
- 5 July – 28 August: General election brings victory for the Tories led by Henry Addington.
- 27 August – West India Docks, first commercial docks in London, open.[4]
- 3 September – William Wordsworth's sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" written.
- 5 November – Marc Isambard Brunel begins installation of his blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth Block Mills.[5]
- 13 November – the first play to be explicitly called a melodrama ("melodrame") is performed in London, Thomas Holcroft's Gothic A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.[6]
- 16 November – arrest in London of ringleaders of the Despard Plot: a failed conspiracy by revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Despard, a radical Anglo-Irish former British Army officer and colonial official, apparently intended to assassinate King George III and seize key positions such as the Bank of England and Tower of London as a prelude to a wider uprising.[7][8]
- 2 December – the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act (2 June) comes into effect, regulating conditions for child labour in factories.[1] Although poorly enforced, it pioneers a series of Factory Acts.
Ongoing
- Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808
Undated
- Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.[1]
- London Fever Hospital founded.
- Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, admits its first intake.
- Solomon Hirschell elected rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London, becoming recognised as chief rabbi of the United Kingdom.[9]
- Sir William Herschel first uses the term binary star to refer to a star which revolves around another star.
- Thomas Wedgwood discovers a method of creating photographs using silver nitrate.[1]
- George Bodley of Exeter patents the first enclosed kitchen stove.[10][11]
- Goodwood Racecourse laid out.[4]
Publications
- 10 October – the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published.
- George Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds.
- Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.[1]
Births
- 3 January – Charles Pelham Villiers, politician (died 1898)
- 6 February – Charles Wheatstone, scientist and inventor (died 1875)
- 7 March – Edwin Landseer, animal painter (died 1873)
- 12 June – Harriet Martineau, social theorist and writer (died 1876)
- 10 July – Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher (died 1871)
- 28 July – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, poet (died 1839)
- 14 August – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet and novelist (died 1838)
- 23 December – Sara Coleridge, scholar (died 1852)
- 10 October – Hugh Miller, Scottish geologist (suicide 1856)
Deaths
- 2 February – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, statesman (born 1713)
- 21 January – John Moore, Scottish-born physician and writer (born 1729)
- 28 January – Joseph Wall, army officer, colonial governor and murderer (born 1737)
- 2 February – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, statesman (born 1713)
- 18 April – Erasmus Darwin, physician and botanist (born 1731)
- 31 October – Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Harburn, admiral (born 1743)
- 9 November – Thomas Girtin, watercolourist (born 1775)
- 15 November – George Romney, portrait painter (born 1734)
- 5 December – Lemuel Francis Abbott, portrait painter (born 1716)
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 354. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ "Dorothy and the daffodils". Wordsworth Trust. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ↑ Uglow, Jenny (1 November 2009). "The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi by Andrew McConnell". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
- 1 2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 238–239. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Bagust, Harold (2006). The Greater Genius? – a biography of Marc Isambard Brunel. Hersham: Ian Allan. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7110-3175-3.
- ↑ "Show me the horrid tenant of thy heart". THEA. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ↑ Conner, Clifford D. (2000). Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel. Combined Publishing.
- ↑ Jay, Mike (2004). The Unfortunate Colonel Despard. Bantam Press. ISBN 0593051955.
- ↑ Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2004). "Hirschell , Solomon (1762–1842)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13363. Retrieved 2011-12-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Cornforth, David; Speight, Anne (3 May 2009). "Bodley & Co". Exeter Memories. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ↑ "The History of Ranges". Tarvin: Antique Fireplaces & Ranges. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
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