1811 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1811 in the United Kingdom. This is a census year and the start of the British Regency.
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Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Regent – George, Prince Regent (starting 5 February)
- Prime Minister – Spencer Perceval (Tory)
- Parliament – 4th
Events
- 1 February – Bell Rock Lighthouse begins operation off the coast of Scotland.[1]
- 5 February – George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent[1] because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III. He is known as the Prince Regent and this is the beginning of the Regency period.[2]
- 21 February – the John and Jane, carrying troops bound for the Peninsular War, is accidentally run down and sunk by HMS Franchise off Lizard Point, Cornwall with the loss of a majority of the 300 on board.[3]
- 13 March – Battle of Lissa: British fleet defeats the French.
- 25–27 March – Battle of Anholt: British naval forces defeat those of Denmark.
- 4 April – Huddersfield Narrow Canal completed by opening of Standedge Tunnel under the Pennines, the longest (5,413 yards (4,950 m)), deepest and highest canal tunnel in Britain.[4]
- 27 May – the second national Census reveals that the population of England and Wales has increased in ten years by over a million to 10.1 million.[5]
- 10 June – a volcanic eruption, observed from Royal Navy sloop HMS Sabrina (1806), creates Sabrina Island (Azores) which on 4 July is claimed for Britain; a few months later it sinks beneath the sea.
- 18 June – the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists leave the established Church of England by ordaining their own ministers in Bala, North Wales.
- 8 September – the first known landing on Rockall is made by a party from HMS Endymion.[6][7]
- 16 October – National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales established by the Church of England to promote a system of National Schools.
- November – Luddite uprisings begin in northern England and Midlands.[8]
- 4 December – Royal Navy frigate HMS Saldanha (1809) is driven in a gale onto rocks in Lough Swilly in Ireland with no survivors from the estimated 253 aboard.[9]
- 7–19 December – Ratcliff Highway murders in London.
Ongoing
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
- Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812
- Anglo-Swedish War 1810–1812
- Peninsular War, 1808–1814
Undated
- Highland Clearances: The Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford begin mass expulsion of crofting tenants from their Highland estates to make way for sheep farming.[10][11]
- Building of Regent Street begins John Nash's development of the West End of London.[12]
- The first complete ichthyosaur fossil is found by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis.
Publications
- Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility ('by a lady').
- Francis Place's Illustrations and Proofs of the Principles of Population, including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others, the first significant text in English to advocate contraception.[13]
Births
- 9 January – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, writer (died 1856)
- 6 February – Henry Liddell, academic and cleric (died 1898)
- 24 February – Edward Dickinson Baker, United States Senator from Oregon from 1860 (died 1861 in the United States)
- 7 June – James Simpson, Scottish obstetrician and pioneer of anaesthesia (died 1870)
- 13 June – Owen Stanley, Royal Navy officer (died 1850)
- 13 July
- George Gilbert Scott, architect (died 1878)
- James "paraffin" Young, Scottish chemist (died 1883)
- 18 July – William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (died 1863)
- 21 December – Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1882)
Deaths
- 9 February – Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (born 1732)
- 14 March – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1735)
- 7 May – Richard Cumberland, dramatist (born 1732)
- 28 May – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, minister (born 1742)
- 15 October – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, portrait painter and politician (born 1735)
- 27 November – Andrew Meikle, engineer (born 1719)
- 31 December – Benjamin Vulliamy, clockmaker (born 1747)
See also
References
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- "George IV (1762–1830)". BBC History. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
- French, Brian (2013). "Dangerous Waters". Maritime South West. 26: 93–123.
- "Standedge Tunnel: a true wonder of the waterways". British Waterways. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
- "1811". 2011 Census. 2011. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- Hall, Basil (1831). Fragments of Voyages and Travels. London.
- Fisher, James (1957). Rockall. Country Book Club. pp. 23–35.
- "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- "George Granville Leveson-Gower (1st Duke of Sutherland)". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- Noble, Ross (15 October 2010). "The Cultural Impact of the Highland Clearances". British History in-depth. BBC. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
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- "Francis Place". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 6 August 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
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