1804 in the United Kingdom
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1804 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland:

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Events from the year 1804 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Addington, Tory (until 10 May), William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

• February 21 - The first self-propelling steam engine or steam locomotive, designed by Richard Trevithick, makes its outing at the Penydarren ironworks in Wales.
• March 7 - John Wedgwood founds The Royal Horticultural Society.¹
• April 2 - Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal
• April 5 - The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil in Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).
• April 26 - Henry Addington resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 10 - William Pitt the younger begins his second term as a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (See also Second Pitt the Younger Ministry.)
• December 12 - Spain declares war on Britain.

Undated

• William Blake writes Milton: a Poem including the poem And did those feet in ancient time.²
• William Wordsworth writes I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.²

Births

• December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, future Prime Minister (d. 1881)
• Unknown date - Andrew Nicholl, painter (d. 1886)

Deaths

• January 4 - Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, author and poet (b. 1727)
• January 15 - Dru Drury, entomologist (b. 1725)
• February 6 - Joseph Priestley, chemist (b. 1733)
• November 23 - Richard Graves, writer (b. 1715)

References

See also