1810 in the United Kingdom

none September 2026 1810 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1810 English cricket season Events from the year 1810 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Spencer Perceval (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Home Secretary – Richard Ryder Secretary of War – Earl of Liverpool Events 19 February – Radical John Gale Jones is called before the House of Commons for a breach of privilege, for which he is committed to Newgate Prison until 21 June.William Prideaux Courtney Jones, John Gale 30 April – Rioting in London after the imprisonment in the Tower of London of Sir Francis Burdett, MP, charged with libel against Parliament after calling for reform of the House of Commons;Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 0-7126-5616-2 244 he is released in June. 3 May – Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-03-10 15 June – Radical journalist William Cobbett is found guilty of treasonous libel for an article in his Political Register critical of the flogging of militiamen and sentenced to two years' in Newgate Prison.Ian Dyck Ian Dyck http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5734 Cobbett, William (1763–1835) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 2011-07-23 8 July – Vere Street Coterie: Police raid a "molly house" in London and arrest 27 men for sodomy or attempted sodomy; a man and a boy are eventually hanged on conviction. 20–27 August – Battle of Grand Port: The French force the Royal Navy fleet attempting to blockade a harbour on Isle de France (Mauritius) to surrender. October – King George III recognised as insane. 10 November – Paisley canal disaster in Scotland: A pleasure craft capsizes with the loss of 84 lives.The Times (London) 1810-11-19 8144: 3. 23 November – Actress Sarah Booth makes her first appearance at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London. 26 November – Radical John Gale Jones is sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for a libel on Lord Castlereagh. 29 November–3 December – Invasion of Isle de France: British forces oblige the French to surrender Isle de France (Mauritius). 14 December – The UK's strongest ever recorded tornado strikes Portsmouth with a top wind speed of 213 to 240 mph km/h on (T8 (F4) rating). 19 December – Frigates Nymphe 1780 6 and Pallas 1804 6 are wrecked near Dunbar.https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Isle-of-May/ Northern Lighthouse Board Isle of May 2014-08-27 22 December – Eight crew of the Hoylake life-boat in the Mersey estuary are drowned on service; Minotaur 1793 is wrecked on Texel in the West Frisian Islands with the loss of 500 lives. 27 December – Chartered East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives. Undated Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues established by merging the former offices of Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases and Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown into a three-man commission.Annual Report of Commissioners of Woods & Forests 1811. General Union of Spinners organises strike action to raise wages in the smaller cotton centres to the Manchester level. Chlorine named by Humphry Davy. Rev. Dr. William Pearson establishes Temple Grove School at East Sheen,History of Temple Grove School http://www.templegrove.org.uk/UserFiles/File/TG%20History%20Nov%2009.pdf 20 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110313100250/http://www.templegrove.org.uk/UserFiles/File/TG%20History%20Nov%2009.pdf 13 March 2011 perhaps the earliest preparatory school in the country. Sake Dean Mahomet opens the Hindoostane Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820 2007-09-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 17 October 2007 Palm oil sales from West Africa to Britain reach 1,000 tons. Ongoing Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815 Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812 Peninsular War, 1808–1814 Publications George Crabbe's epistolatory poem The Borough. Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake. Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales. Births 12 January – John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (died 1882) 15 January – John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873) 19 January – Talhaiarn, poet and architect (died 1869) 24 January – Thomas Jones, missionary (died 1849) 10 March – Samuel Ferguson, poet and artist (died 1886) 27 March - William Hepworth Thompson, classical scholar (died 1886) 30 March – Pablo Fanque, black circus owner, popularized by The Beatles in song (died 1871) 5 April - Sir Henry Rawlinson, politician and Orientalist (died 1895) 21 April - Thomas Wright, antiquarian (died 1877) 17 July - Martin Farquhar Tupper, poet and writer (died 1889) 29 September – Elizabeth Gaskell, née Stevenson, novelist (died 1865) Deaths 26 January – James Martin, radical politician (born 1738) 24 February – Henry Cavendish, scientist (born 1731) 7 March – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (born 1748) 24 March – Mary Tighe, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1772) 3 April – Twm o'r Nant, Welsh dramatist and poet (born 1739) 26 April – John Metcalf, English roadbuilder (born 1717) 15 May – Francis Hews, Baptist preacher in Bedfordshire 21 May – Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (born 1728) 4 June – William Windham, Whig statesman (born 1750) 2 November – Princess Amelia, member of the Royal Family (born 1783) 15 December – Sarah Trimmer, writer for children (born 1741) probable – William Cruickshank, Scottish military surgeon, chemist and inventor References 1810 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1810 by country Category:1810 in Europe Category:1810s in the United Kingdom