1825 in the United Kingdom
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1825 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1825 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 23 April - Royal Charter granted to the Geological Society of London.^[1]
• 22 June - Cotton Mills Regulation Act 1825 establishes a maximum 12-hour day for children under 16.^[2]
• 15 September - Royal Charter granted to the Royal Society of Literature.^[1]
• 27 September - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens with engineer George Stephenson driving the first public train pulled by the steam engine Active.^[3]
• 10 November - Royal Charter granted to the Van Diemen's Land Company.^[1]

Undated

• The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.
• Estimation: London becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.^[4]
• Reconstruction of Buckingham Palace by architect John Nash.
• Trade Unions become legal.

Publications

• Walter Scott's novels The Betrothed and The Talisman.

Births

• 4 May - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (died 1895)
• 8 May - George Bruce Malleson, officer and author (died 1898)
• 24 June - William Henry Smith, politician and founder of W H Smith (died 1891)
• 13 November - Charles Frederick Worth, couturier (died 1895)

Deaths

• 6 March - Samuel Parr, schoolmaster (born 1747)
• 27 June - Edward Pigott, astronomer (born 1753)
• 20 August - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (born 1753)
• 25 October - David Bogue, nonconformist leader (born 1750)

References

See also