| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| Napoleon declared
Emperor of France Royal Horticultural Society founded George Romney (English painter) dies |
1804 |
Joseph Priestley dies |
| 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 |
|
| George (PoW) made
Prince Regent Throckmorton Coat made George Gilbert Scott born |
1811 |
Luddite
disturbances in Notts
and Yorks "The Great Comet" (1) Closure of Moira Furnace |
| Charles Dickens
born Edward Lear born Parthenon Marbles shipped to London Napoleon marches on Moscow Brighton Pavilion begun Augustus Pugin born |
1812 |
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 |
Gas
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 |
|
| "The Scotsman" newspaper founded William Bligh dies Henry David Thoreau born |
1817 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| John Keats dies Ford Madox Brown born |
1821 |
|
| 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 |
1823 |
Edmund Cartwright dies Edward Jenner dies Charles Babbage starts work on the first "computer" Charles Macintosh
invents
waterproof fabric |
| Byron dies Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded in UK First RNLI gold medal for gallantry issued |
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
 |
| Holman Hunt
(painter) born Wm 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 the 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 |
| 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
electromagnetic induction |
| Edouard Manet (painter) born End of 1st cholera epidemic » 1848 |
1832 |
G F Muntz patents
Muntz's Metal |
| Factory Act limits
child labour Slavery abolished in British Empire Edward Burne-Jones born William Wilberforce dies Birmingham Town
Hall completed Mold 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 |
1835 |
|
| First civil marriages allowed in Britain Sheffield's botanical Gardens open |
1836 |
|
| William IV dies Accession of Queen Victoria  Isabella Beeton born |
1837 |
Brunel's Great Western launched |
| Public Record Office
established Grace and William Darling rescue survivors from the Forfarshire National 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 Parliament in London 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 |
|
| Saxophone invented Kew Gardens opens |
1841 |
|
| The Rebecca
Riots Derby gets a new town hall John Sell Cotman dies George Bassett sets up his confectionery business in Sheffield >> 1899 |
1842 |
|
| Wordsworth
becomes Poet
Laureate Edvard Grieg (composer) born United Free Church of Scotland formed Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol first published in December Nelson's Column erected in Trafalgar Square |
1843 |
Brunel's
SS Great Britain launched "The Great Comet" (2) |
| Chatsworth's Emperor Fountain
constructed
YMCA founded 8th Marquess
Queensbury (boxing
rules) born Work begins on Kew
Palm House
>> 1848 |
1844 |
Samuel
Morse sends first telegraph John Dalton dies
|
| Irish Famine »
1846 Dr Thomas John Barnardo born Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" |
1845 |
First
submarine cable under the English Channel Northampton 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 pulisher) born |
1847 |
Institution
of Mechanical
Engineers founded with George Stephenson
as president Dee Bridge disaster Thomas Edison born Alexander Graham
Bell born Chloroform first
used as an
anaesthetic |
| 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 |
1848 |
Robert Stephenson's
Conway Bridge
opens |
|
Abolition
of the Corn Laws
Beau Brummel dies William Etty dies Joseph Fry makes the first chocolate bar Dickens's "David Copperfield" |
1849 |