1814 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 August 2012 1814 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1814 English cricket season Events from the year 1814 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George III Regent – George, Prince Regent Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Home Secretary – Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth Secretary of War – Lord Bathurst Events January 14 January Treaty of Kiel cedes Danish Heligoland to the United Kingdom.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 246–247 0-7126-5616-2 Troopship Queen, newly returned from Spain, is driven ashore and wrecked on Trefusis Point near Mylor, Cornwall with the probable loss of at least 300.SV Queen http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?12337 wrecksite 2016-04-25 2016-11-26 The third-coldest month in the CET series with an average of −2.9 C F 1 orHadley Centre Ranked Central England temperature. allows the last River Thames frost fair in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 26 January – Actor Edmund Kean makes his London debut in an adult leading role as Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. February 12 February – A fire destroys the Custom House in the City of London.The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb Christopher Hibbert Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 287 21 February – Great Stock Exchange Fraud in London. April 1 April – The Gas Light and Coke Company begins the world's first permanent public gas lighting of streets in the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster,Chris Higman http://www.icheme.org/events/conferences/past-conferences/2014/gasification-2014/~/media/283D56F4D379497EA3C7CFE90D809B0C.pdf The Gas Light and Coke Company 200 Years of Commercial Gas Production March 2014 5 2014-05-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20140521031706/http://www.icheme.org/events/conferences/past-conferences/2014/gasification-2014/~/media/283D56F4D379497EA3C7CFE90D809B0C.pdf 21 May 2014 dead extending to other parts of London by 25 December.Gas Light and Coke Co http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Gas_Light_and_Coke_Co Grace's Guide 2014-05-16 2014-05-20 10 April – The Duke of Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse, ending the Peninsular War. 24 April – Allied sovereigns' visit to England concludes with naval review in Portsmouth. Wellington joins the foreign dignitaries. 28 April – First running of the 1,000 Guineas Stakes horse race at Newmarket, won by Charlotte. May 5 May – War of 1812: The British attack Fort Ontario at Oswego, New York. 30 May – Treaty of Paris: the United Kingdom takes control of Malta, Tobago, Saint Lucia, and Mauritius from France. June 22 June – First cricket match is played at Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood. 23 June – After five years away, having led Allied forces to victory in the Peninsular War, the Duke of Wellington arrives in Dover to a rapturous reception. July 5 July – War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario. 25 July War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls, Ontario, for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie. George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive into service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside. 26 July – Opening of Ryde Pier on the Isle of Wight, the first pier in the United Kingdom.The Piers, Tramways and Railways at Ryde R. J. Maycock R. Silsbury Usk Oakwood Press 2005 0-85361-636-1 13 28 July–13 September – Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley abandons his pregnant wife and runs away with the sixteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, accompanied by her stepsister Jane Clairmont (also 16), to France and Switzerland.History of a Six Weeks' Tour. August 1 August – The Grand Jubilee of 1814 is held celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Hanoverian Succession. 12 August – The last hanging under the Black Act in England is of William Potter for cutting down an orchard; the judge petitions for reprieve. 13 August – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 is signed in London, returning most possessions of the Dutch Empire acquired by the United Kingdom since 1803 to the Netherlands, although the United Kingdom retains the Cape of Good Hope and the South American settlements of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice (later consolidated as British Guiana). In addition, Britain cedes the island of Banca off the island of Sumatra in exchange for the settlement of Cochin in India. 24 August – War of 1812: The Burning of Washington: British troops burn Washington, D.C. 28 August – Alexandria, Virginia, offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight. September 10 September – The last recorded duel in Wales is fought at Newcastle Emlyn: Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling. October 17 October – London Beer Flood: a large vat of porter in Meux's Brewery bursts, demolishing buildings and killing nine. 18 October – British troop transport Sovereign is wrecked on St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) with the loss of between 199 and 212 of the 237 people on board.The Times 9395 1814-12-19 p.3A.Sovereign - 1814 https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=4130 On the Rocks Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 2007-10-05 2021-05-17 23 October – The first plastic surgery carried out in England by Dr Joseph Constantine Carpue. November 29 November – The first edition of The Times to be printed using a steam press. December 24 December – Treaty of Ghent signed by the United Kingdom and the United States ending the War of 1812, however due to the time it takes for news to reach America, fighting continues for weeks. Ongoing Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815 Undated Jeremiah Colman begins making Colman's mustard at Stoke Holy Cross mill near Norwich. James Purdey establishes his gunmaking business in London. John Abernethy appointed lecturer in anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons. John Keats leaves apprenticeship to become a student at a local hospital. The Benedictine monastic community is established at Downside in Somerset. Publications Jane Austen's (anonymous) novel Mansfield Park. Fanny Burney's last work, the historical novel The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties. Lord Byron's tales in verse The Corsair (sells 10,000 copies on publication day (1 February)Jones, Neal T. A Book of Days for the Literary Year https://archive.org/details/bookofdaysforlit0jone registration London; New York Thames and Hudson 1984 0-500-01332-2 and over 25,000 in the first month, going through seven editions) and LaraCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm (sells 6,000 copies on publication in the summer). Henry Cary's blank verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (complete). Walter Scott's (anonymous) first prose work, the historical novel Waverley (sells out within 2 days of publication (7 July)). William Wordsworth's long poem The Excursion. Births 7 January – Robert Nicoll, Scottish radical journalist and poet (died 1837) 21 April – Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (died 1906) 8 June – Charles Reade, novelist and dramatist (died 1884) 28 June – Frederick William Faber, poet, hymnodist, theologian and Catholic convert (died 1863) 28 August – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish-born writer (died 1873) 3 September – James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician (died 1897) 7 September – William Butterfield, architect (died 1900) 28 December – John Bennet Lawes, agricultural scientist (died 1900) Deaths 27 January – Philip Astley, circus promoter (born 1742) 8 April – Julia Shuckburgh-Evelyn, aristocrat (born 1790) 12 April – Charles Burney, music historian (born 1726) 12 July – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, general (born 1729) 19 July – Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer of the coasts of Australia (born 1774) 25 July – Charles Dibdin, composer (born 1745) 31 August – Arthur Phillip, admiral and first governor of New South Wales (born 1738) 18 November – William Jessop, civil engineer (born 1745) 22 November – Edward Rushton, abolitionist and pioneer of education for the blind (born 1756) 9 December – Joseph Bramah, inventor and locksmith (born 1748) References 32em 1814 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1814 by country Category:1814 in Europe Category:1810s in the United Kingdom