1802 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 1802 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1802 English cricket season Events from the year 1802 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Henry Addington (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Lord Hawkesbury Secretary of War – Lord Hobart Events 5 January – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, where they are at risk of destruction during the Ottoman occupation of Greece; the first shipment departs Piraeus on board Elgin's ship, the Mentor, "with many boxes of moulds and sculptures", including three marble torsos from the Parthenon.Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification London Verso Books 2016 February – The Rosetta Stone is brought to England by Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who arrives at Portsmouth on the captured French frigate L'Egyptiane. On 11 March it is presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London, which in turn presents it to the British Museum.Ivan Lindsay The History of Loot and Stolen Art: from Antiquity until the Present Day Andrews UK Ltd 2014 27 March – Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/354 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 354 19 April – Joseph Grimaldi first presents his white-faced clown character "Joey", at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi by Andrew McConnell https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/01/pantomime-life-of-joseph-grimaldi Jenny Uglow Jenny Uglow The Guardian London 2009-11-01 2011-01-12 May – 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. 6 May – William Herschel coins the term asteroid107120 William Herschel Observations on the two lately discovered celestial Bodies Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 92 213–232 6 May 1802 10.1098/rstl.1802.0010 http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/minorplanets.php James L. Hilton When Did the Asteroids Become Minor Planets? 2001-09-17 2006-08-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20090825024347/http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/minorplanets.php 2009-08-25 dead and on 1 July first uses the term binary star to refer to a star which revolves around another. 1802 Catalogue of 500 New Nebulae, Nebulous Stars, Planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars; With Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens William Herschel 107131 https://zenodo.org/record/1432308/files/article.pdf Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 92 477–528 [481] 1802RSPT...92..477H 10.1098/rstl.1802.0021 free June – The first account of Thomas Wedgwood's experiments in photography using silver nitrate is published by Humphry Davy in the Journal of the Royal Institution in London."An Account of a method of copying Painting upon Glass and making profiles, by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver." Invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq. with Observations by H. Davy.Robert Hirsch Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography Taylor & Francis 2017 Since a fixative for the image has not yet been devised, the early photographs quickly fade. 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.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 238–239 0-7126-5616-2 5 November – Marc Isambard Brunel begins installation of his blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth Block Mills.Bagust Harold The Greater Genius? – a biography of Marc Isambard Brunel 2006 Ian Allan Hersham 978-0-7110-3175-3 31 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.Show me the horrid tenant of thy heart http://www.unipr.it/arpa/dipling/GT/Seminari/SEMINARIO1.html THEA 2011-02-15 23 July 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723010907/http://www.unipr.it/arpa/dipling/GT/Seminari/SEMINARIO1.html dead 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.Conner Clifford D. Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel Combined Publishing 2000Jay Mike The Unfortunate Colonel Despard Bantam Press 2004 0593051955 The newly elected Parliament is inaugurated by King George III, who tells the members, "In my intercourse with foreign powers, I have been actuated by a sincere disposition of the maintenance of peace," but adds that "My conduct will be invariably regulated by a due consideration of the actual situation of Europe, and by a watchful solicitude for the permanent welfare of my people."William Belsham History of Great Britain: From the Revolution, 1688, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802 12 Phillips 1805 485 23 November – East Indiaman Vryheid, in the service of the Batavian Republic, is shipwrecked in a gale off Hythe, Kent; only 18 of 472 on board survive. 2 December – The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act (2 June) comes into effect, regulating conditions for child labour in factories. Although poorly enforced, it pioneers a series of Factory Acts. Ongoing Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808 Undated 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.Hilary L. Rubinstein Hilary L. Rubinstein Hirschell, Solomon (1762–1842) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13363 2011-12-09 10.1093/ref:odnb/13363 George Bodley of Exeter patents the first enclosed kitchen stove.David Cornforth Anne Speight Bodley & Co. http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/bodley.php Exeter Memories 3 May 2009 2011-03-12The History of Ranges http://www.antiquefireplacesandranges.com/historyofranges.html Antique Fireplaces & Ranges Tarvin 2011-03-12 7 July 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110707145757/http://www.antiquefireplacesandranges.com/historyofranges.html dead Goodwood Racecourse laid out. 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 Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. 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 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) References 1802 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1802 by country Category:1800s in the United Kingdom