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Events from the year 1822 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents- Monarch – George IV
- Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
- Parliament – 7th
Events- 15 January – HM Treasury directs that the Preventive Water Guard, Revenue cruisers and Riding officers should all be placed under the authority of the Board of Customs as HM Coast Guard.[1]
- 23 May – HMS Comet launched at Deptford Dockyard, the first steamboat commissioned by the Royal Navy.
- 3 July – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine", a forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under Government sponsorship 1823–32 but it will never be completed.[2]
- 8 July – the Chippewa turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the British.[3]
- 22 July – an Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle ("Martin's Act"), one of the first pieces of animal rights legislation,[4] is passed to regulate treatment of cows, horses and sheep.
- 31 July – last public whipping in Edinburgh.
- 12 August – St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
- 15–29 August – visit of King George IV to Scotland,[5] first appearance of the monarch there since 1651.
- 22 August – The English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson
- 16 September – George Canning appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
- 21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy Cruizer class brig-sloop of 1813, is wrecked off Mizen Head in Ireland with the loss of all 100 aboard.[6]
- 20 October – The New Observer newspaper becomes The Sunday Times.[7]
- 23–24 October – the Caledonian Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford, is opened throughout, linking the east and west coasts of Scotland through the Great Glen.[8]
- 27 November – outside Newgate Prison in London, William Reading becomes the last person to be hanged for shoplifting.[9]
Unknown dates- Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
- The Royal Academy of Music is established in London.
- First fossil to be recognised{{Vague|date=February 2009}} as that of a dinosaur, an Iguanodon tooth, is discovered by Gideon Mantell and his wife Mary in West Sussex.
- Construction of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton is completed.
Publications- John C. Loudon's The Encyclopædia of Gardening.
- Sir Walter Scott's novels The Pirate and The Fortunes of Nigel.
- Alexander Jamieson's A Celestial Atlas.
Births- 10 February – Eliza Lynn Linton, English novelist and journalist (died 1898)
- 13 February – James B. Beck, Scottish-born United States Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died 1890 in the United States)
- 16 February – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (died 1911)
- 8 April – stillborn twin sons to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen[10]
- 18 July – Augusta of Cambridge, Hanoverian princess (died 1916)
- 1 November – Sydney Waterlow, English businessman, politician and philanthropist (died 1906)
- 24 December – Matthew Arnold, English poet (died 1888)
Deaths- January – John Julius Angerstein, merchant and insurer (born 1735)
- 15 January – John Aikin, physician and writer (born 1747)
- 24 February – Thomas Coutts, banker (born 1735)
- 8 July – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (born 1792)
- 12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Foreign Secretary (suicide) (born 1769)
- 25 August – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (born 1738, Hanover)
See also {{Empty section|date=March 2018}}References1. ^{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Lewis|title=The Navy in Transition, 1814–1864: a social history|location=London|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=1965|pages=89–90}}
2. ^{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Hyman|title=Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1982|isbn=0-19-858170-X|page=51ff}}
3. ^{{cite web| title= Treaty Timeline| url= http://www.manitobachiefs.com/treaty/timeline.html#sectindividual| accessdate= 13 January 2007 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061211132257/http://www.manitobachiefs.com/treaty/timeline.html#sectindividual#sectindividual| archivedate= 11 December 2006| deadurl= yes| df= dmy-all}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=The Rights of Persons, according to the text of Blackstone: incorporating the alterations down to the present time|authorlink=William Blackstone|first1=William|last1=Blackstone|first2=James|last2=Stewart|year=1839|page=79}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Prebble|first=John|authorlink=John Prebble|title=The King's Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August 1822 'One and Twenty Daft Days'|location=London|publisher=Collins|year=1988|isbn=0-00-215404-8}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Gossett|first=William Patrick|year=1986|title=The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900|location=London|publisher=Mansell|isbn=0-7201-1816-6|page=100}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html |title=Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century |accessdate=2008-03-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224071628/http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html |archivedate=24 February 2008 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
8. ^{{cite book|first=Jean|last=Lindsay|title=The Canals of Scotland|location=Newton Abbot|publisher=David & Charles|year=1968|isbn=0-7153-4240-1}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/timeline.html|title=Timeline of capital punishment in Britain|accessdate=2011-02-02}}
10. ^{{cite book|authorlink=Philip Ziegler|last=Ziegler|first=Philip|year=1971|title=King William IV|location=London|publisher=Collins|isbn=0-00-211934-X|pages=126–7}}
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