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Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents- Monarch – George III
- Regent – George, Prince Regent
- Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
- Parliament – 6th
Events- 6 February – formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.[1]
- 19 February – William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic.[1]
- 20 March – Burlington Arcade opens in London.
- 13 April – the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a wagonway, opens for coal traffic.
- 14 April – the streets of Birmingham are lit by gas for the first time by the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company.
- 21 April–end May – John Keats writes "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and most of his major odes.[2]
- 20 June – the {{SS|Savannah}}, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia, United States, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam.[1]
- June – Act of Parliament to abolish private appeals following acquittals in criminal cases and to abolish trial by combat, in the aftermath of Ashford v Thornton (1818).[3]
- 16 August – Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.[4]
- 19 September – Keats writes his ode "To Autumn" at Winchester.[2]
- 23 November–30 December – Six Acts passed by Parliament to suppress assemblies promoting radical reform.
Undated- Britannia Monument to Admiral Lord Nelson at Great Yarmouth (the "Norfolk Pillar") is completed.
- The Travellers Club is established in London.
Publications- John Polidori's short story The Vampyre.
- Walter Scott's novels Ivanhoe, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose.
Births- 8 February – John Ruskin, writer, artist and social critic (died 1900)
- 11 March – Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet, sugar merchant and philanthropist (died 1899)
- 28 March – Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (died 1891)
- 24 May – Queen Victoria, born Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, queen regnant (died 1901)
- 5 June – John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892)
- 12 June – Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875)
- 1 August – Richard Dadd, painter (died insane 1886)
- 13 August – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-born mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
- 26 August – Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (born at Coburg; died 1861)
- 5 September – stillborn child to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born dead at Calais)[5]
- 22 November – George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, novelist (died 1880)
Deaths- 25 August – James Watt, Scottish-born inventor (born 1736)
- 22 November – John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742)
- 19 December – Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765; died at Naples)
See alsoReferences1. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|first=John|last=Keats|title=The Complete Poems|editor=Barnard, John|location=Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin Education|year=1973|isbn=0-14-080668-7}} 3. ^{{cite book|authorlink=Robert Megarry|last=Megarry|first=Robert|year=2005|publisher=Hart|location=Oxford|title=A New Miscellany-at-Law|isbn=978-1-58477-631-4}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820|accessdate=2007-09-11|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|archivedate=2007-10-17}} 5. ^{{cite book|authorlink=Philip Ziegler|last=Ziegler|first=Philip|year=1971|title=King William IV|location=London|publisher=Collins|isbn=0-00-211934-X|page=126}}
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