1827 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1827 in the United Kingdom.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - King George IV
- Prime Minister - Lord Liverpool, Tory (until 9 April), George Canning, coalition (until 8 August), Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Tory
Events
- 17 January - The Duke of Wellington becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.[1]
- 1 March - St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, opens its doors to its first students.
- 7 March - Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins.
- 7 April - John Walker begins selling his invention, the friction match.[1]
- 10 April - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister following the latter's resignation due to ill health after almost fifteen years in office.[2]
- 14 May - Culprits of the Shrigley Abduction are sentenced to three years each.
- 21 May - Launch of the London Standard newspaper.
- 6 July - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
- 31 August - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the UK following the death of Canning (see also Goderich Ministry.)
- 20 October - Battle of Navarino: British, French and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.[1]
Ongoing events
Undated
- Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion.[3]
- Setting of mantraps to catch poachers is made illegal.
Publications
- Thomas De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (in Blackwood's Magazine).
- Benjamin Disraeli's (anonymous) first novel, Vivian Grey.
Births
- 24 February - Lydia Becker, suffragete (died 1890)
- 25 March - Edward Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), writer (died 1889)
- 2 April - Holman Hunt, painter (died 1910)
- 5 April - Joseph Lister, surgeon (died 1912)
- 4 May - John Hanning Speke, explorer (died 1864)
- 17 July - Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist (died 1902)
- 16 August - Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (died 1894)
- 24 October - George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Liberal Party politician (died 1909)
Deaths
- 2 January - John Mason Good, writer (born 1764)
- 26 June - Samuel Crompton, inventor (born 1753)
- 8 August - George Canning, Prime Minister (born 1770)
- 12 August - William Blake, poet, painter and printmaker (born 1757)
References
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
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