1816 in the United Kingdom
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1816 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1816 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Tory

Events

• 9 January - Sir Humphry Davy tested the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 27 August - Britain and the Netherlands bombard Algiers in an attempt to suppress slavery by the North African Barbary states.
• 2 December - Spa Fields riots: a mass meeting of conspirators dispersed by the police.^[1]

Unknown dates

• The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
• A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
• Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.
• Completion of the Leeds to Liverpool canal.^[2]

Publications

• Emma, novel by Jane Austen.^[1]
• Kubla Khan, poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.^[1]
• On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, sonnet by John Keats.^[1]
• The Antiquary, The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality, novels by Walter Scott.

Births

• 21 April - Charlotte Brontë, novelist (d. 1855)
• 30 June - Richard Lindon, inventor (d. 1887)
• 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, scholar (d. 1897)

Deaths

• 27 January - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (b. 1724)
• 22 February - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
• 5 July - Dorothy Jordan, Irish actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761)
• 7 July - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (b. 1751)
• 15 December - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, statesman and scientist (b. 1753)

References

See also