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Events from the year 1800 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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- 1 January - Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died 1857)
- 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, civil servant (died 1894)
- 11 February - William 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 - George Hudson, railway financier (died 1871)
- 15 April - James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1862)
- 16 April
- 4 May - John McLeod Campbell, churchman (died 1872)
- 9 May - Samuel Carter Hall, journalist (died 1889)
- 1 June - Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (died 1869)
- 30 June - Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor (died 1873)
- 22 July - Robert McCormick, Royal Navy surgeon (died 1890)
- 22 August - Edward Bouverie Pusey, churchman (died 1882)
- 12 September - William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died 1879)
- 22 September
- 30 September - Decimus Burton, architect and garden designer (died 1881)
- 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)
- 27 November - Frances Anne Kemble, actress and author (died 1893)
- 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)
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- 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)
- 30 June - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, politician (born 1732)
- 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 (born 1756)
- 27 December - Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718)
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[edit] References
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 237-238. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d "1800." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 1 Jun, 2007
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
[edit] See also
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