1789 in Great Britain

none September 2026 April 2014 1789 yes Events from the year 1789 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 gov.uk 1 July 2023 en Events 3 February – Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces a Regency Bill to Parliament so that the Prince of Wales may serve as regent for his father George III during a period of mental illness, but the King recovers before the Bill becomes law.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 340–341 March – first version of a graphic description of a slave ship (the Brookes) issued on behalf of the English Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.219 years ago – Description of a Slave Ship http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2008/05/ship_brooks.html 2008 Rare Book Collections @ Princeton Princeton University Library 19 March 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005129/http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2008/05/ship_brooks.html 4 February 2014 The Brookes – visualising the transatlantic slave trade http://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/exhibitions/museums/brookes.html 1807 Commemorated 2007 University of York Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 19 March 2013 3 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172612/http://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/exhibitions/museums/brookes.html dead 18 March – Catherine Murphy, a counterfeiter, becomes the last woman in Britain to suffer a sentence of death by burning, at Newgate Prison in London (although she is in practice strangled before being burnt).S. Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould Bladys of the Stewponey https://archive.org/details/bladysstewponey00barigoog April – Privy Council report on the slave trade published. 20 April – first boat passes through the Thames and Severn Canal's Sapperton Tunnel near Cirencester in Gloucestershire. At 3817 yd m it is the longest tunnel of any kind in England at this date.http://www.cotswoldcanals.com/pages/technical-stuff/sapperton-tunnel.php Cotswold Canals Trust Cotswold Canals Trust 4 December 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110419110443/http://www.cotswoldcanals.com/pages/technical-stuff/sapperton-tunnel.php 19 April 2011 dead 28 April – Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh in Polynesia.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 12 May – William Wilberforce makes his first major speech in the House of Commons on the abolition of the slave trade.Hochschild Adam Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery 2005 London Macmillan 978-0-330-48581-4 60458010 14 June – Mutiny on the Bounty survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat. 28 August – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.William Herschel Account of the Discovery of a Sixth and Seventh Satellite of the Planet Saturn; with Remarks on the Construction of its Ring, its Atmosphere, its Rotation on an Axis, and its spheroidical Figure Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London 80 1–20 1 January 1790 10.1098/rstl.1790.0001 free 17 September – William Herschel discovers Mimas, another of Saturn's moons. 4 November – Richard Price preaches a sermon in London, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, igniting the Revolution Controversy. 19 November – Thames and Severn Canal opened throughout, giving through navigation between the Thames and Severn.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 230–231 0-7126-5616-2 Undated Charles Dibdin introduces the nautical song Tom Bowling in his London entertainment The Oddities. The song The Lass of Richmond Hill, with music by James Hook to words by Leonard McNally, is first performed publicly by Charles Incledon at Vauxhall Gardens in London. Rev. Dr. Edmund Cartwright patents his first practical power loom and designs a wool combing machine. Industrial conglomerate Newton, Chambers & Co. established in Sheffield. Andrew Pears introduces Pears soap in London. Publications William Blake's book of poetry Songs of Innocence and of Experience and his first published prophetic book The Book of Thel. Erasmus Darwin's poem The Loves of the Plants, a popular rendering of Linnaeus' works. Former slave Olaudah Equiano's autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, one of the earliest published works by a black writer.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml BBC History British History Timeline 3 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml 9 September 2007 Births 5 January – Thomas Pringle, poet (died 1834) 14 July – Timothy Yeats Brown, consul to Genoa (died 1858) 19 July – John Martin, painter (died 1854) 28 September – Richard Bright, physician, "Father of Nephrology" (died 1858) 25 December – Elizabeth Jesser Reid, social reformer (died 1866) James Morrison, millionaire retail draper and politician (died 1857) Deaths 1 January – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, politician (born 1716) 8 January – Jack Broughton, English boxer (born 1703) 23 January – Frances Brooke, writer (born 1724) 23 January – John Cleland, novelist (born 1709) 26 February – Eclipse, racehorse (born 1764) 20 July – David Nelson, botanist on Bounty (birth date unknown) 26 November – John Elwes, miser and politician (born 1714) See also 1789 in Wales References 1789 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1789 by country Category:1789 in Europe Category:1780s in Great Britain