1. Incumbents

2. Events
    Ongoing 

3. Publications

4. Births

5. Deaths

6. See also

7. References

Events from the year 1807 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III
• Prime Minister – William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (Coalition) (until 31 March); William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (Tory) (starting 31 March)
• Parliament – 3rd (until 29 April), 4th (starting 22 June)

Events

• 1 January – the island of Curaçao is captured by Admiral Charles Brisbane.^[1]
• 28 January – Pall Mall, London becomes the first street with gas lighting^[2] in a demonstration by Frederick Albert Winsor.
• 3 February – Napoleonic Wars and Anglo-Spanish War – Battle of Montevideo: the British Army captures Montevideo from the Spanish Empire as part of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
• 18 February – the Royal Navy gun-brig Snipe runs aground 60 yards (55 m) off Great Yarmouth in a storm, with around 200 people drowned, inspiring Captain Manby to invent the Manby Mortar.^[3]
• 23 February – around forty people are killed in a crush attending a public hanging in London.^[4]
• 25 March
  • The Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing the slave trade in most of the British Empire.^[5]
  • The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
• 31 March – Duke of Portland asked to form a government following the collapse of the Ministry of all the Talents.
• 18 April – Harwich ferry disaster: 60 to 90 soldiers and their families drown when a boat capsizes off Landguard Fort.
• 4 May–9 June – the Duke of Portland wins the general election.
• 31 May – Primitive Methodism originates in an All Day of Prayer at Mow Cop in North Staffordshire.^[6]
• June – first Ascot Gold Cup held.^[7]
• 22 June – Chesapeake-Leopard Affair: Royal Navy warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake off Norfolk, Virginia, seeking deserters.
• 5 July – disastrous attack on Buenos Aires.
• 7–9 July – Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia. Napoleon and Emperor Alexander I of Russia ally together against the British.
• 13 July – with the death at Frascati of Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart, the last Stuart claimant to the throne, the movement of Jacobitism comes to an effective end.
• 2–7 September – Battle of Copenhagen: The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent the Dano-Norwegian navy from surrendering to Napoleon. One third of the city is destroyed and two thousand citizens killed.
• 2 September – Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812): Russia declares war on the United Kingdom.
• 13 November – Geological Society founded in London.
• 20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale (brig) and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with around 400 drowned.^[8]
• 22 December – the U.S. Congress passes the Embargo Act in response to the Orders in Council.
• 29 December – the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Anson runs aground on Loe Bar, Cornwall, with around sixty people drowned, inspiring Henry Trengrouse to invent a rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks.^[9]
• Undated – Potassium and sodium isolated by Sir Humphry Davy.

Ongoing

• Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808
• Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815

Publications

• Charles and Mary Lamb's children's book Tales from Shakespeare.^[10]
• Benjamin Tabart's version of the fairy tale The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk.
• William Wordsworth's Poems in Two Volumes, including "Resolution and Independence", "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Intimations of Immortality" and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802".

Births

• 8 February – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, sculptor and natural history artist (died 1894)
• 3 April – Mary Carpenter, educational and social reformer (died 1877)
• 8 October – Harriet Taylor, philosophical writer (died 1858)

Deaths

• 5 January – Isaac Reed, Shakespearean editor (born 1742)
• 15 April – Durham Ox, shorthorn bull (born 1796)
• 18 May – John Douglas, Anglican bishop (born 1721)
• 13 July – Henry Benedict Stuart, claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom (born 1725)
• 18 July – Thomas Jones, mathematician (born 1756)
• 14 September – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, field marshal (born 1724)
• 21 December – John Newton, cleric and hymnist (born 1725)

See also

• 1807 in Scotland

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