1829 in the United Kingdom
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1829 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1827 | 1828 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831

Sport

1829 English cricket season

Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George IV of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Tory

Events

• 8 January - Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke. His associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released.
• 13 April - Passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829 by Parliament of the United Kingdom granting Catholic Emancipation.^[1]
• 5 June - slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
• 10 June - University of Oxford win the first Boat Race.^[1]
• 19 June - Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service.^[1]
• 4 July - George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.^[2]
• 29 September - the first police officers of the Metropolitan Police Service, known by the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers", go on patrol in London.^[1]
• 8 October - George Stephenson's steam locomotive, The Rocket, defeats John Ericsson's The Novelty and thus wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.^[2]
• 4 December - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
• 13 December - Last British hanging for forgery – Thomas Maynard

Undated

• The last of the Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.

Publications

• Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein.

Births

• 17 January - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (died 1890)
• 10 April - William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (died 1912)
• 8 June - John Everett Millais, painter (died 1896)
• 14 July - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1896)
• John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (died 1904)

Deaths

• 25 January - William Shield, composer, violinist and violist (born 1748)
• 28 January - William Burke, murderer and grave robber, executed (born 1792, Ireland)
• 10 May - Thomas Young, physician and linguist (born 1773)
• 29 May - Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (born 1778)
• 27 June - James Smithson, mineralogist, chemist and founder of the Smithsonian Institute (born 1765)

References

See also