1822 in the United Kingdom

	1822 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1822 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch – George IV
Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (until 18 August) George Canning (from 13 September)
Home Secretary – Lord Sidmouth (until 17 January) Robert Peel (from 17 January)
Secretary of War – Lord Bathurst

Events

Portrait of Lord Castlereagh by Thomas Lawrence.

3 January – Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland is gutted by fire.^[1]
15 January – HM Treasury directs that the Preventive Water Guard, Revenue cruisers and Riding officers should all be placed under the authority of the Board of Customs as HM Coast Guard.^[2]
23 May – HMS Comet launched at Deptford Dockyard, the first steamboat commissioned by the Royal Navy.
18 June – The Wellington Monument is inaugurated close to the Duke's London residence Apsley House on the seventh anniversary of his victory at Waterloo.
3 July – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under Government sponsorship 1823–32 but it will never be completed.^[3]
8 July – The Chippewa turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the British.^[4]
19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.^[5]
22 July – An Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle ("Martin's Act"), one of the first pieces of animal rights legislation,^[6] is passed to regulate treatment of cows, horses and sheep.
31 July – Last public whipping in Edinburgh.
12 August
- The Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh cuts his own throat at his house in Kent.
- St David's College (the modern-day University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
15–29 August – Visit of King George IV to Scotland,^[7] first appearance of the monarch there since 1651.
22 August – English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, later named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson
16 September – George Canning is appointed Foreign Secretary to replace Castlereagh.
21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop of 1813, is wrecked off Mizen Head in Ireland with the loss of all 100 aboard.^[8]
24 September – The Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, marries, as his second wife, Mary Chester, at Hampton Court.^[9]
20 October
- The New Observer newspaper becomes The Sunday Times.^[10]
- The Duke of Wellington represents Britain at the Congress of Verona.
23–24 October – The Caledonian Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford, is opened throughout, linking the east and west coasts of Scotland through the Great Glen.^[11]
27 November – Outside Newgate Prison in London, William Reading becomes the last person to be hanged for shoplifting.^[12]

Undated

Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
A fossil Iguanodon tooth is discovered by Gideon Mantell and his wife Mary in West Sussex; in 1825 it will be the first fossil to be recognised as that of a dinosaur.^[13]
The Royal Academy of Music is established in London.
Construction of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton is completed.
Stonemason John Mowlem establishes the contracting firm Mowlem.

Publications

Alexander Jamieson's A Celestial Atlas.
John C. Loudon's The Encyclopædia of Gardening.
Sir Walter Scott's novels The Pirate and The Fortunes of Nigel.

Births

10 February – Eliza Lynn Linton, English novelist and journalist (died 1898)
13 February – James B. Beck, Scottish-born United States Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died 1890 in the United States)
16 February – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (died 1911)
8 April – Stillborn twin sons to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen^[14]
19 April – Edward Oxford, English attempted assassin of Queen Victoria (died 1900)
18 July – Augusta of Cambridge, Hanoverian princess (died 1916)
1 November – Sir Sydney Waterlow, English businessman, politician and philanthropist (died 1906)
6 December – Mary Colton, Australian philanthropist and suffragist (died 1898)^[15]
24 December – Matthew Arnold, English poet (died 1888)

Deaths

15 January – John Aikin, physician and writer (born 1747)
24 February – Thomas Coutts, banker (born 1735)
8 March – Christopher Wyvill, cleric, landowner and political reformer (born 1740)
17 June – Marquess of Hertford, politician and courtier (born 1743)
8 July – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (born 1792)
23 July – Peter Durand, merchant (born 1766)
12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Foreign Secretary (suicide) (born 1769)
25 August – William Herschel, astronomer (born 1738 in Hanover)

References

^ Henderson, Tony (11 June 2014). "Historical twist as nesting birds hold up Seaton Delaval Hall work". journallive. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
^ Lewis, Michael (1965). The Navy in Transition, 1814–1864: a social history. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 89–90.
^ Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Oxford University Press. p. 51ff. ISBN 0-19-858170-X.
^ "Treaty Timeline". Archived from the original on 11 December 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2007.
^ Geoghegan, Patrick M. (October 2009). "Jocelyn, Percy". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
^ Blackstone, William; Stewart, James (1839). The Rights of Persons, according to the text of Blackstone: incorporating the alterations down to the present time. p. 79.
^ Prebble, John (1988). The King's Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August 1822 'One and Twenty Daft Days'. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-215404-8.
^ Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. London: Mansell. p. 100. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
^ Bell's Weekly Messenger. 30 September 1822. p. 7.
^ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
^ Lindsay, Jean (1968). The Canals of Scotland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4240-1.
^ "Timeline of capital punishment in Britain". Retrieved 2 February 2011.
^ Dean, Dennis R. (1999). Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-42048-2.
^ Ziegler, Philip (1971). King William IV. London: Collins. pp. 126–7. ISBN 0-00-211934-X.
^ Jones, Helen. "Mary Colton (1822–1898)". Colton, Mary (1822–1898). National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Retrieved 29 December 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[1] Henderson, Tony (11 June 2014). "Historical twist as nesting birds hold up Seaton Delaval Hall work". journallive. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2015.

[2] Lewis, Michael (1965). The Navy in Transition, 1814–1864: a social history. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 89–90.

[3] Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Oxford University Press. p. 51ff. ISBN 0-19-858170-X.

[4] "Treaty Timeline". Archived from the original on 11 December 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2007.

[5] Geoghegan, Patrick M. (October 2009). "Jocelyn, Percy". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 16 March 2024.

[6] Blackstone, William; Stewart, James (1839). The Rights of Persons, according to the text of Blackstone: incorporating the alterations down to the present time. p. 79.

[7] Prebble, John (1988). The King's Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August 1822 'One and Twenty Daft Days'. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-215404-8.

[8] Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. London: Mansell. p. 100. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.

[9] Bell's Weekly Messenger. 30 September 1822. p. 7.

[10] "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2008.

[11] Lindsay, Jean (1968). The Canals of Scotland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4240-1.

[12] "Timeline of capital punishment in Britain". Retrieved 2 February 2011.

[13] Dean, Dennis R. (1999). Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-42048-2.

[14] Ziegler, Philip (1971). King William IV. London: Collins. pp. 126–7. ISBN 0-00-211934-X.

[15] Jones, Helen. "Mary Colton (1822–1898)". Colton, Mary (1822–1898). National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Retrieved 29 December 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

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