1805 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 1805 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1805 English cricket season Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom. This is the year of the Battle of Trafalgar. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (until 11 January) Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (from 11 January) Home Secretary – Lord Liverpool Secretary of War – Lord Camden (until 10 July) Lord Castlereagh (from 10 July) thumb|The Battle of Trafalgar by J. M. W. Turner, 1808 Events 20 January – London Docks open.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 5 February – East Indiaman Earl of Abergavenny is wrecked in Weymouth Bay with the loss of 263 lives. 21 February – Charles Manners-Sutton confirmed as Archbishop of Canterbury.W. M. Jacob Sutton, Charles Manners (1755–1828) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17964 2011-02-25 18 April – Ordnance Survey begins systematic publication of its General Survey of England and Wales ("Old Series") maps to a scale of one inch to the mile (1:63,360) with those for Essex.Ordnance Survey: Old Series – The first fully "OS" map Old maps of Essex https://www.oldessexmaps.co.uk/gallerypubs/galleryOS/OSold.html 2014 2016-05-25 4 June – The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London. 3 August – The annual cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School is played for the first time. 21 October Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar – British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtml British History Timeline, BBC History 2007-09-11 An underground explosion at Hebburn colliery on Tyneside kills 35.Hebburn Colliery Explosion – Hebburn – 1805 https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/durham/hebburn-colliery-explosion-hebburn-1805/ Northern Mine Research Society 2021-04-22 23 October – Troopship Aeneas is wrecked off Newfoundland with the loss of 340 lives.Grocott Terence Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras Caxton Editions 2002 1-84067-164-5 6 November – News of the victory at Trafalgar and Nelson's death reaches London.The London Gazette, extraordinary edition, 6 November 1805; The Times, 7 November 1805. 26 November – The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened in Wales, the tallest and longest in Britain.L. T. C. Rolt L. T. C. Rolt Thomas Telford https://archive.org/details/thomastelford00rolt registration London Longmans, Green 1958 Ongoing Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808 Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815 Publications John Dalton's paper "On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other Liquids". Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 2nd series 1: pp. 271–87, including the first published list of standard atomic weights. Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel. First printed version of the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet" in Songs for the Nursery.Opie, Iona and Peter The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes Oxford University Press 1951 2nd 1997 323–4, 374–380 First printed version of the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard" in The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog. First printed version of the folk song "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea" in its modern (Tyneside) version. First printed version of the nonconformist hymn tune "Cranbrook",Clark, Thomas. A Sett of Psalm & Hymn Tunes. later used for the folk song "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at". Births 27 January – Samuel Palmer, landscape watercolourist (died 1881) 4 February – W. Harrison Ainsworth, historical novelist (died 1882) 8 March – Rayner Stephens, Scottish-born radical reformer and Methodist minister (died 1879) 20 March – Thomas Cooper, Chartist, poet and religious lecturer (died 1892) 5 July Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, agriculturalist, nephew of Napoleon I (died 1870 in the United States) Robert FitzRoy, admiral and meteorologist (suicide 1865) 9 August – Joseph Locke, railway civil engineer (died 1860) 29 August – Frederick Denison Maurice, theologian (died 1872) 7 November – Thomas Brassey, railway contractor (died 1870) 20 December – Thomas Graham, Scottish-born chemist (died 1869) 22 December – John O. Westwood, entomologist (died 1893) Deaths 2 January – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733) 3 January – Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737) 30 January – John Robison, physicist (born 1739) 18 January – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730) 2 February – Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735) 25 February William Buchan, doctor (born 1729) Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722) 7 May – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)History of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-petty-2nd-earl-of-shelburne www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en 25 May – William Paley, philosopher (born 1743) 3 August – Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724) 28 August – Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722) 5 October – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738) 21 October – Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758) References 32em 1805 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1805 by country Category:1800s in the United Kingdom