1818 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Tory

Events

* 6 January - Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 249-250|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 4 August - the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool win the general election.
* 25 September - In London, Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 20 October - A convention between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.

Publications

* Jane Austen's novels "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey" (posthumous).
* John Keats' 4-volume poem "Endymion".
* Walter Scott's novel "The Heart of Midlothian".
* Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein".cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820|accessdate=2007-09-11]
* The first volume of Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel "The History of the Fairchild Family".
* Thomas Bowdler's expurgated "Family Shakespeare".

Births

* 18 January - George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer (died 1897)
* 21 February - George Wilson, chemist (died 1859)
* 22 March - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (died 1846)
* 11 June - Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903)
* 21 June - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector (died 1890)
* 30 July - Emily Brontë, novelist (died 1848)
* 24 December - James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)

Deaths

* 22 August - Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
* 17 November - Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)

References

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