1799 in Great Britain

none 1799 yes Events from the year 1799 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 9 January – Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the poundPenguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. 20 March–21 May – British troops lend aid to the Ottoman defenders against the French Siege of Acre.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 2005 0-304-35730-8 348 https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/348 4 May – Battle of Seringapatam: British forces defeat the Sultan of Mysore; his kingdom is divided between the Honourable East India Company and Hyderabad.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 237–238 0-7126-5616-2 1 July – Britain allies with Russia, Austria, Portugal, Naples, and the Ottoman Empire against France. 12 July – Parliament passes: The Combination Act to outlaw trade unions.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml BBC History British History Timeline 2007-09-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml 2007-09-09 Unlawful Societies Act to outlaw clandestine radical societies and require a printer's imprint on all published material.Unlawful Societies Act 1799 vlexJustis https://vlex.co.uk/vid/unlawful-societies-act-1799-808113257 2023-03-15 15–19 August – A combined French and Spanish fleet stands off the south west coast of England.Lloyd's List. 27 August – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Britain and Russia send an expedition to the Batavian Republic. 30 August – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Vlieter Incident – A squadron of the Batavian Republic's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrenders to the British Royal Navy under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near Wieringen without joining action. 6 October – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Battle of Castricum – Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force. 9 October – Sinking of Lutine 1793, a famous treasure wreck, in the West Frisian Islands. 16 October – Action of 16 October 1799: A Spanish treasure convoy worth more than £600,000 is captured by the Royal Navy off Vigo. 18 October – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Capitulation of Anglo-Russian expedition forces in North Holland. 23 October – The River Severn ferry at The Tuckies, Jackfield, Shropshire capsizes and 28 workers from Coalport China Works are drowned.Neil Clarke Crossing the River: Fords and Ferries on the Shropshire Severn Derby Railway and Canal Historical Society 2015 978-0-901461-62-9 43–44 5 November – HMS Sceptre is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay, South Africa, with the loss of 349 and 41 survivors.The United Service Magazine The Autobiography of Sir John Barrow https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_C6sktnjjNBIC 337 1847 2008-11-04 H. Colburn The Religious Tract Society is established as an evangelical publisher in Paternoster Row, London; as The Lutterworth Press the imprint continues into the 21st century. Ongoing Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808 French Revolutionary Wars, War of the Second Coalition Births January – James Meadows Rendel, civil engineer (died 1856) 12 January – Priscilla Susan Bury, botanist (died 1872) 8 February – John Lindley, botanist (died 1865) 16 March – Anna Atkins, botanist and photographer (died 1871)Catharine M. C. Haines International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 Santa Barbara ABC-CLIO 2001 978-1-57607-090-1 10 29 March – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (died 1869) 17 April – Eliza Acton, cookery writer (died 1859) 13 May – Catherine Gore, author (died 1861) 21 May – Mary Anning, paleontologist (died 1847) 23 May – Thomas Hood, poet (died 1845) 18 June – William Lassell, astronomer (died 1880) 25 June – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (died 1834 in Hawaii) 8 September – James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor (died 1862) 21 December – Ignatius Spencer, priest (died 1864) James Townsend Saward, barrister and forger (date of death unknown) Approximate date – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (died 1847) Deaths 26 January – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-born general and settler in Montreal (born 1722) 26 May – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge and comparative linguist (born 1714) 14 June – Sir Patrick Warrender, Scottish soldier and politician (born 1731) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/warrender-patrick-1731-99 WARRENDER, Patrick (1731-99), of Lochend, Haddington. History of Parliament Online 20 March 2018 4 August – John Bacon, sculptor (born 1740) 5 August – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, admiral (born 1726) 25 August – John Arnold, watchmaker (born 1736) 3 September – William Thomas, academic and Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral (born 1726)s-THOM-WIL-1734 Thomas, William (1734-1799), cleric and antiquary Hywel David Emanuel National Library of Wales 26 November 2020 6 October – William Withering, physician (born 1741) 4 November – Josiah Tucker, economist (born 1713)Ruth Savage Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=8zTVtbQQuKsC&pg=PA240 26 April 2012 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-922704-4 240 References 1799 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1799 by country Category:1790s in Great Britain