| William Cowper (poet and hymn writer) dies |
1800 |
Alessandro Volta invents the first chemical battery
Fox Talbot born William Herschel discovers infrared radiation |
| Union with Ireland – Union Flag adopted
First official British Census (population of England 8.3 million) |
1801 |
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| Peace with France
Peel introduces first Factory Legislation Sir Edwin Landseer born Thomas Girtin (English painter) dies Madame Tussaud arrives in UK |
1802 |
West India Docks completed in London
Erasmus Darwin dies
John Dalton produces atomic theory and tables of atomic weights Telford builds the road through the Highlands |
| Napoleonic War
Titus Salt born Enclosure Act Joseph Paxton born |
1803 |
Caledonian Canal opens
Robert Stephenson born |
| George Romney (English painter) dies
Napoleon declared Royal Horticultural Society founded |
1804 | Joseph Priestley dies
The Great Comet Closure of Moira Furnace |
| Battle of Trafalgar – Death of Nelson Mary Seacole born Hans Christian Andersen born |
1805 |
Grand Junction Canal completed |
| George Stubbs (painter – well known for animal pictures) dies |
1806 |
East India Docks completed in London
Trevithick’s railway completed at Coalbrookdale I K Brunel born Francis Beaufort devises the wind force scale |
| Lamb’s “Tales from Shakespeare” |
1807 |
Royal Military Canal opens |
| Thomas Cook (Travel agent) born |
1808 |
Captain Manby experiments with maritime rescue lines |
| Fitzgerald born
Preventative Water Guard formed (Early coastguard) Haydn dies |
1809 |
Matthew Boulton dies
Charles Darwin born |
| George III becomes insane |
1810 |
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| George (PoW) made Prince Regent
Throckmorton Coat made George Gilbert Scott born |
1811 |
Luddite disturbances in Notts and Yorks |
| Charles Dickens born
Parthenon Marbles shipped to London Napoleon marches on Moscow Brighton Pavilion begun Augustus Pugin born
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1812
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Foxton Locks open |
| Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
Nash begins work on Regent Street |
1813 |
Wooten Wawen aqueduct opens
Gun Barrel Proof House opens in Birmingham |
| 1814 |
Street lighting installed in St Margaret’s Parish, Westminster | |
| Battle of Waterloo |
1815 |
Tardebigge Locks open
Blisworth to Northampton branch canal opens Waterloo Bridge, Betws-y-Coed built Humphrey Davy invents the miners’ safety lamp |
| Jane Austen’s “Emma” | 1816 |
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| “The Scotsman” newspaper founded
William Bligh dies Henry David Thoreau born
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1817 |
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| Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
US-Canada border established at 49th parallel |
1818 |
Institution of Civil Engineers founded with Telford as president
Eugenius Birch born Vulcan ship built Cantlop Bridge plans drawn |
| Queen Victoria born
Albert (later Prince Albert) born George Eliot born John Ruskin born Walt Whitman born Peterloo Massacre Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds opens Picadilly Circus built in London |
1819 |
James Watt dies
Canal system reaches Sheffield |
| George III dies
Accession George IV Sir John Tenniel (Alice illustrator) born Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound” |
1820 |
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| John Keats dies
Ford Madox Brown born |
1821 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley dies
Antonio Canova (sculptor) dies Royal Academy of Music founded |
1822 |
Gregor Mendel born |
| Oxford Union Society founded
Rugby first played at the public school Work begins on British Museum extension buildings (current structure) >> 1847 Pimm’s invented Brighton Pavilion completed
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1823 |
Edmund Cartwright dies
Edward Jenner dies Charles Babbage starts work on the first “computer” Charles Macintosh invents |
| Byron dies
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded in UK
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1824 |
Samuel Plimsoll born |
| Trade Unions legalised |
1825 |
Stockton & Darlington railway completed
Thomas Henry (T.H.) Huxley born Telford completes Menai Bridge |
| Joseph Arch born (d.1922)
1st Edition Burke’s Peerage published |
1826 |
Longstone Lighthouse built
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| Holman Hunt (painter) born
William Blake dies Beethoven dies Burke and Hare murders begin >> 1829 |
1827 |
Scarborough Spa Bridge opens
Joseph Lister (antiseptic pioneer) born Ohm’s Law established |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti born
Jules Verne born Leo Tolstoy born Henrik Ibsen born |
1828 |
Zoological Society of London opens zoo in Regent’s Park |
| Catholic emancipation
Millais born Metropolitan Police formed Rotunda Museum opens in Scarborough Barclay imports first Cavendish banana plant William Burke hanged Robert Abbot dies |
1829 |
Stephenson’s”Rocket”
Galton Bridge opens over Telford’s canal at Smethwick Humphry Davy dies
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| George IV dies
Accession William IV Camille Pissarro (painter) born 1st cholera epidemic » 1832 |
1830 |
Faraday begins work on electricity
Darwin’s 1st voyage on Beagle |
| Isle of Lewis chess set found |
1831 |
London Bridge opens
Sir James Clark Ross discovers position of magnetic North Pole Henry Maudslay dies Faraday demonstrates |
| Edouard Manet (painter) born
End of 1st cholera |
1832 |
G F Muntz patents Muntz’s Metal |
| Factory Act limits child labourSlavery abolished in British EmpireEdward Burne-Jones bornWilliam Wilberforce diesBirmingham Town Hall completedMold cape discovered |
1833 |
Richard Trevithick dies |
| Coleridge dies
Dickens’s “Sketches by Boz” Poor Law amendment introduces Union Workhouses Tolpuddle Martyrs transported William Morris born Edgar Degas (painter) born James McNeill Whistler (painter) born |
1834 |
Telford dies
Chance’s Glassworks established Charles Babbage develops the analytic engine |
| Mark Twain born (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first children’s story John Nash dies |
1835 |
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| First civil marriages allowed in Britain
Sheffield’s botanical gardens open |
1836 |
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| William IV dies
Accession of Queen Victoria John Constable dies Isabella Beeton born
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1837 |
Brunel’sGreat Western launched |
| Public Record Office establishedGrace and William Darling rescue survivors from the ForfarshireNational Gallery opens in London |
1838 |
Robert Stephenson’s London & Birmingham Railway opens
First public demonstration of the electric telegraph by Samuel Morse |
| 1st Opium War
Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin begin work on the new Houses of Pugin’s St Mary’s Church completed in Derby NSPCC founder Rev Benjamin Waugh born Paul Cezanne born |
1839 |
Fox Talbot‘s first photographs
Derby gets a railway line Sheffield gets a railway line |
| Penny post introduced by Sir Rowland Hill
Charles Dickens publishes The Old Curiosity Shop New Zealand proclaimed a British colony Beau Brummel dies penniless in France Victoria marries Albert |
1840 |
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| Saxophone invented
Kew Gardens opens |
1841 |
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| The Rebecca Riots
Derby gets a new town hall John Sell Cotman dies George Bassett sets up his confectionery business in Sheffield >> 1899 |
1842 |
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| Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate
Edvard Grieg (composer) born United Free Church of Scotland formed Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Nelson’s Column erected in Trafalgar Square |
1843 |
Brunel’sSS Great Britain launched
“The Great Comet” |
| Chatsworth’s Emperor Fountain
constructed YMCA founded 8th Marquess Queensbury (boxingrules) born Work begins on KewPalm House>> 1848 |
1844 |
Samuel Morse sends first telegraphJohn Dalton dies |
| Irish Famine » 1846Dr Thomas John Barnardo bornEdgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” |
1845 |
First submarine cable under the English Channe
lNorthampton gets its first railway line |
| Irish Famine » 1848 |
1846 |
Planet Neptune discovered |
| Dickens’s “Dombey & Son”
Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” Wm Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair” Marx & Engels’s “Communist Manifesto” British Museum completed Joseph Pulitzer (journalist and publisher) born |
1847 |
Institution of Mechanical Engineers founded with George Stephenson as presidentDee Bridge disasterThomas Edison bornAlexander Graham Bell born Chloroform first used as an |
| Pre-Raphaelites formed
Paul Gaugin born 2nd cholera epidemic Irish Famine Hymn “All Things Bright and Beautiful” written in Dunster, Somerset Kew’s Palm House completed Matthew Webb born
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1848 |
Robert Stephenson’s Conway Bridge opens |
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Abolition
of the Corn Laws Beau Brummel dies |
1849 |