1822 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1822 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
- 14 June - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.
- 8 July - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. (See Treaty Timeline - Individual Treaties with maps at [1].)
- 31 July - Last public whipping in Edinburgh.
- 12 August - The Visit of King George IV to Scotland.
- 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.
- 22 August - The English ship Orion landed at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson
- 16 September - George Canning appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
- 20 October - The New Observer newspaper becomes The Sunday Times.[1]
[edit] Unknown dates
- Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
- Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
- Royal Academy of Music established in London.
- King George III's personal library of 65,000 volumes, 19,000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawings donated to The British Museum.
- First fossil discovered to be recognised[vague] as that of a dinosaur by Gideon Mantell or his wife Mary in West Sussex.
- Building of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton is completed.
[edit] Publications
- Walter Scott novels The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak.
[edit] Births
- 16 February - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
- 18 July - Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
- 24 December - Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
[edit] Deaths
- January - John Julius Angerstein, merchant and insurer (born 1735)
- 15 January - John Aikin, physician and writer (born 1747)
- 24 February - Thomas Coutts, banker (born 1735)
- 8 July - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (born 1792)
- 12 August - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, foreign secretary (suicide) (born 1769)
- 25 August - William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (born 1738, Hanover)
[edit] References
- ^ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-17.
