1800 in Great Britain

none December 2018 November 2020 1800 yes Events from the year 1800 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville Events thumb|300px|Assassination attempt against King George III, 15 May 1800. January – Maria Edgeworth's first extended work of fiction, the pioneering historical novel Castle Rackrent, is published anonymously in London. 8 January – first soup kitchens open in London.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 237–238 0-7126-5616-2 13 January – Royal Institution granted a royal charter. March – Robert Bloomfield's popular poem The Farmer's Boy is published.David Kaloustian Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press Online 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2676 2012-03-04 17 March – Queen Charlotte 1790 catches fire off the coast of Cabrera, Balearic Islands, with the loss of 700 lives.1800 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 22 March – Company of Surgeons granted a royal charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons in London. 15 May – George III survives two assassination attempts in London: In Hyde Park, a bullet intended for him hits a man standing alongside; and later at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, two bullets fired by an insane man (James Hadfield) hit the wooden panel behind him.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-08-22 30 June – Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the City of Glasgow Police, which first musters on 15 November. 2 July & 1 August – Acts of Union 1800: The complementary Union with Ireland Act 1800, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and Act of Union (Ireland) 1800, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, are passed by the respective legislatures, to unite the Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with effect from 1 January 1801.http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/ Act of Union 1707 parliament.uk 2007 2012-08-10 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20081015044930/http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/ 2008-10-15 Act of Union 1707.Act of Union Timeline Act of Union Virtual Library http://www.actofunion.ie/timeline.htm 2013-04-24 12 December 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20041212131051/http://www.actofunion.ie/timeline.htm dead The latter Act achieves its majority of 43 in the Irish House of Commons (which will be abolished under the measures) partly through the bribing of former opponents by the award of peerages and honours.Alan J. Ward The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland 1782–1992 Blackrock Irish Academic Press 1994 0716525194 28 The British act is given royal assent by King George III in August. Catholic emancipation has been promised as part of the legislation by William Pitt (the British Prime Minister), Lord Cornwallis (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) and Lord Castlereagh (Chief Secretary of Ireland) but they are forced to drop it by the King leading to their resignations.Bew John John Bew (historian) 2012 2011 Castlereagh: A Life Oxford University Press 978-0-19-993159-0 https://books.google.com/books?id=DyTg672rGTMC 28 July – two acts of Parliament are passed in response to James Hadfield's assassination attempt on the King: the Criminal Lunatics Act requires and provides a procedure for the indefinite detention of mentally ill offenders; and the Treason Act aligns procedures for the trial of anyone attempting to take the monarch's life with those for murder in general.Moran Richard 1985 The origin of insanity as a special verdict: the trial for treason of James Hadfield (1800) Law & Society Review 19 487–519 10.2307/3053574 3053574 3 Blackwell Publishing 11617589 4 September – Siege of Malta (1798–1800): The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who have been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 22 September – Downing College, Cambridge, granted a Royal Charter, the first new college there for two centuries. December – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz introduces a Christmas tree at a party for children at Windsor.http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/christmas/christmas_tree.html Windsor Castle and The Christmas Tree The royal Windsor Web Site 2016-12-25 Ongoing Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808 French Revolutionary Wars, War of the Second Coalition Undated Inflation reaches an all-time recorded high of 36.5%.Robert Twigger http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750–1998 1999 House of Commons Library 2010-11-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060219130455/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf 2006-02-19 Infrared radiation is discovered by William Herschel. Births 135px|thumb|Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere 135px|thumb|George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 135px|thumb|Edwin Chadwick 135px|thumb|Henry Fox Talbot 1 January – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died 1857) 4 January – Charles Baillie-Hamilton, politician (died 1865) 6 January – George Thomas Doo, engraver (died 1886) 12 January – George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, diplomat and statesman (died 1870) 24 January – Edwin Chadwick, social reformer (died 1890) 27 January – Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, statesman (died 1875) 1 February – Brian Houghton Hodgson, naturalist and civil servant (died 1894) 11 February – Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer (died 1877) 12 February – John Edward Gray, zoologist (died 1875) 23 February – William Jardine, naturalist (died 1874) 4 March – William Price, physician and eccentric (died 1893) 10 March Horatio Thomas Austin, Royal Navy officer and explorer (died 1865) George Hudson, railway financier (died 1871) 15 April – James Clark Ross, Royal Navy officer and explorer (died 1862) 16 April George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, soldier (died 1888) William Chambers of Glenormiston, publisher and politician (died 1883) 4 May – John McLeod Campbell, churchman (died 1872) 8 May – William Lovett, Chartist leader (died 1877) 9 May – Samuel Carter Hall, journalist (died 1889) 28 May – Edward Baines, newspaper editor and Member of Parliament (died 1890) 1 June – Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (died 1869) 9 June – James Wilson Carmichael, marine painter (died 1868) 30 June – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor (died 1873) 22 July – Robert McCormick, Royal Navy surgeon and explorer (died 1890) 29 July – George Bradshaw, cartographer and timetable publisher (died 1853) 22 August – Edward Bouverie Pusey, churchman (died 1882) 10 September – Edwin Guest, antiquary (died 1880) 12 September – John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died 1879) 22 September George Bentham, botanist (died 1884) Thomas Holloway, pharmacist and philanthropist (died 1883) 30 September – Decimus Burton, architect and garden designer (died 1881) 11 October – William Calcraft, hangman (died 1879) 18 October – Henry Taylor, dramatist (died 1886) 25 October – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, poet (died 1859) 4 November – George Long, classical scholar (died 1879) 18 November – John Nelson Darby, evangelist (died 1882) 4 December – William Fenwick Williams, military leader (died 1883) 20 December – Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, statesman (died 1885) 25 December – John Phillips, geologist (died 1874) 27 December – John Goss, organist and composer (died 1880) Unknown dates Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter (died 1869) Thomas Henry Lister, novelist and Registrar General (died 1842) Deaths 135px|thumb|William Jones 6 January – William Jones, divine (born 1726) 22 January – George Steevens, Shakespearean commentator (born 1736) 23 February – Joseph Warton, academic and literary critic (born 1722) 14 March – Daines Barrington, naturalist (born 1727) 25 April – William Cowper, poet (born 1731) 23 May – Henry Cort, ironmaster (born 1741?) 30 June – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, politician (born 1732) 16 August – Samuel Barrington, admiral (born 1729) 25 August – Elizabeth Montagu, literary critic (born 1720) 5 November – Jesse Ramsden, astronomical instrument maker (born 1735) 30 November – Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, eccentric nobleman (born 1712) 26 December – Mary Robinson, poet, actress and royal mistress (born 1756) 27 December – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718) References Further reading New Annual Register...for 1800 London G. and J. 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