1823 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1823 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George IV of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Tory
[edit] Events
- 20 February - Explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74°15' S and longitude 34°16'45" W: the southernmost position any ship had ever reached before, a record that would hold for more than 80 years.
- March - Royal Academy of Music opens.[1]
- 17 June - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats.[2]
- July - Robert Peel ensures the passage of five Acts of Parliament, abolishing the death penalty for over one hundred offences.[1]
- 4 July - Transportation Act 1823 allows convicts transported to the colonies to be employed on public works.[1]
- 10 July - Gaols Act 1823 passed by Parliament, based on the prison reform campaign of Elizabeth Fry.[1]
- 23 September First Burmese War: Burmese attack the British on Shapura, an island close to Chittagong.
- November - According to tradition, William Webb Ellis invents rugby.[1]
[edit] Undated
- The King's Library presented to the British Museum.
[edit] Publications
- Walter Scott's novel Quentin Durward.
[edit] Births
- 8 January - Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist and biologist (died 1913)
- 13 August - Goldwin Smith, historian (died 1910)
[edit] Deaths
- 26 January - Edward Jenner, physician and medical researcher (born 1749)
- 27 January - Charles Hutton, mathematician (born 1737)
- 7 February - Ann Radcliffe, writer (born 1764)
- 26 February - John Philip Kemble, actor (born 1757)
- 14 March - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Royal Navy admiral (born 1735)
- 23 April - Joseph Nollekens, sculptor (born 1737)
- 11 September - David Ricardo, economist (born 1772)
- 23 September - Matthew Baillie, physician and pathologist (born 1761)
- 30 October - Edmund Cartwright, clergyman and inventor of the power loom (born 1743)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 252-253. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
