1822 in the United Kingdom
- 1822 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1822 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - George IV of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Tory
Events
* 14 June - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.
* 8 July - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. (See Treaty Timeline - Individual Treaties with maps at [http://www.manitobachiefs.com/treaty/timeline.html#sectindividual] .)
* 31 July - Last public whipping in Edinburgh.
* 12 August - The Visit of King George IV to Scotland.
* 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.
* 22 August - The English ship Orion landed at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson
* 16 September - George Canning appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
* 20 October - "The New Observer" newspaper becomes "The Sunday Times". [cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html|title=Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century|accessdate=2008-03-17]
Unknown dates
* Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
* Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
* Royal Academy of Music established in London.
* King George III's personal library of 65,000 volumes, 19,000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawings donated to The British Museum.
* First fossil discovered to be recognisedvague as that of a dinosaur by Gideon Mantell or his wife Mary in West Sussex.
* Building of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton is completed.
Publications
* Walter Scott novels "The Pirate", "The Fortunes of Nigel" and "Peveril of the Peak".
Births
* 16 February - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
* 18 July - Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
* 24 December - Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
Deaths
* January - John Julius Angerstein, merchant and insurer (born 1735)
* 15 January - John Aikin, physician and writer (born 1747)
* 24 February - Thomas Coutts, banker (born 1735)
* 8 July - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (born 1792)
* 12 August - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, foreign secretary (suicide) (born 1769)
* 25 August - William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (born 1738, Hanover)
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