1829 in the United Kingdom

none November 2020 1829 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1829 English cricket season Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George IV Prime Minister – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (Tory) Foreign Secretary – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Home Secretary – Robert Peel Secretary of War – George Murray Events thumb|Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution, Aged 141 by William Heath: The Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel as Burke and Hare smother the Bill of Rights 1689 by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 8 January – Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke in Edinburgh. His associate William Hare, who has testified against him, is released. 26 January – First performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs at the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth; it will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.Gillan Don http://www.stagebeauty.net/th-frames.html?http&&&www.stagebeauty.net/th-longr.html Longest Running Plays in London and New York 2007 2011-02-15 13 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200613222559/http://www.stagebeauty.net/th-frames.html?http&&&www.stagebeauty.net%2Fth-longr.html dead 1–2 February – York Minster is extensively damaged in a fire started by Jonathan Martin (who is subsequently acquitted of arson on the grounds of insanity).Balston Thomas The Life of Jonathan Martin 1945 March 5 – Jack Adams, last of the Bounty mutineers, dies on Pitcairn Island. 21 March – Wellington–Winchilsea duel. A duel is fought between the Prime Minister (the Duke of Wellington) and George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, in Battersea Fields, provoked by the Duke's support for Catholic emancipation and foundation of the secular King's College London. Deliberately off-target shots are fired by both and honour is satisfied without injury. 27 March – Zoological Society of London receives its royal charter. April–September – The composer Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This includes (June) the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and (August) his trip to Fingal's Cave.George Grove George Grove Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony 904111 The Musical Times 45 740 1 October 1904 644 10.2307/904111 13 April – Passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act by Parliament of the United Kingdom granting Catholic emancipation.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 5 June – Slave trade: Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. 10 June – The Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race, rowed at Henley-on-Thames.http://theboatrace.org/origins Foundations of The Boat Race The Xchanging Boat Race Theboatrace.org 2012-03-29 19 June – Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service. 30 June – Henry Robinson Palmer files a patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.Nick Thomson Corrugated Iron Buildings Oxford Shire Publications 2011 978-0-7478-0783-4 7–8 4 July – George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840 2007-09-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 22 September 2007 dead 2–3 August – The "Muckle Spate", a great flood of the River Findhorn which devastates much of Strathspey, Scotland, washing away many bridges.The Muckle Spate of 1829: the physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00232.x Mcewen Lindsey J. Werritty Alan Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 2007 1 66–89 2007TrIBG..32...66M http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/20158/ subscription 14 August – King's College London founded by Royal Charter 29 September – The first police officers of the Metropolitan Police Service, known by the nicknames "bobbies" or "peelers", go on patrol in London. thumb|Stephenson's Rocket at The Rainhill Trials (model) 8 October – Robert Stephenson's steam locomotive Rocket defeats John Ericsson's Novelty and other competitors and thus wins the Rainhill Trials held on the under-construction Liverpool and Manchester Railway. 4 December – In the face of fierce opposition, Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abet suttee in India are guilty of culpable homicide. 31 December – Last British hanging for forgery, Thomas Maynard at Newgate Prison, London.Thomas Maynard British Executions http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=6013&termRef=Thomas%20Maynard 2024-01-07 Ongoing Anglo-Ashanti war (1823–1831) Publications Thomas Carlyle's essay Signs of the Times. Thomas Love Peacock's historical romance The Misfortunes of Elphin (as "by the author of Headlong Hall"). Sir Walter Scott's historical novel Anne of Geierstein (as "by the author of Waverley"). Births 17 January – Catherine Booth, Mother of The Salvation Army (died 1890) 2 February – William Stanley, inventor (died 1909) 6 March – Arthur Blomfield, architect (died 1899) 10 April – William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army (died 1912) 4 June – Allan Octavian Hume, member of the Indian civil service and "the Father of Indian Ornithology" (died 1912) 5 June – George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Scottish-born businessman in Canada and philanthropist (died 1921) 8 June – John Everett Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1896) 16 June – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (died 1925) 14 July – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1896) 25 July – Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet (died 1862) 25 September – William Michael Rossetti, critic (died 1919) 9 November – Sir Peter Lumsden, Scottish general in the Indian army (died 1918) John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (died 1904) Deaths 15 January – John Mastin, local historian, memoirist and clergyman (born 1747) 25 January – William Shield, composer, violinist and violist (born 1748) 28 January – William Burke, murderer and grave robber, executed (born 1792 in Ireland) 1 March – Thomas Earnshaw, watchmaker (born 1749) 8 May – Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, barrister, statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1759) 10 May – Thomas Young, physician and linguist (born 1773) 29 May – Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (born 1778) 27 June – James Smithson, mineralogist, chemist and sponsor of the Smithsonian Institution (born 1765) 7 August – John Reeves, conservative activist, public servant and legal historian (born 1752) 10 October – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, botanist (born 1755) 28 December – Bill Richmond, bare-knuckle welterweight boxer (born 1763 in British America) References 1829 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1829 by country Category:1829 in Europe Category:1820s in the United Kingdom