1800 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1800 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

* 8 January - First soup kitchens open in London.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 237-238|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 17 March - HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire with the loss of 700 lives."1800." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 1 Jun, 2007]
* 5 May - Parliament passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January 1801. The act is signed by King George III in August.
* 5 September - At the invitation of the Maltese, British troops liberate the Islands of Malta and Gozo from the French.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]

Undated

* Infrared radiation is discovered by William Herschel.
* Royal Institution granted a Royal Charter.
* Royal College of Surgeons of England granted a Royal Charter.

Births

* 1 January - Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died 1857)
* 6 January - George Thomas Doo, engraver (died 1886)
* 12 January - George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, diplomat and statesman (died 1870)
* 24 January - Edwin Chadwick, social reformer (died 1890)
* 27 January - Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, statesman (died 1875)
* 1 February - Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant (died 1894)
* 11 February - William Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer (died 1877)
* 12 February - John Edward Gray, zoologist (died 1875)
* 23 February - William Jardine, naturalist (died 1874)
* 4 March - William Price, physician and eccentric (died 1893)
* 10 March - George Hudson, railway financier (died 1871)
* 15 April - James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1862)
* 16 April
** George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, soldier (died 1888)
** William Chambers of Glenormiston, publisher and politician (died 1883)
* 4 May - John McLeod Campbell, churchman (died 1872)
* 9 May - Samuel Carter Hall, journalist (died 1889)
* 1 June - Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (died 1869)
* 30 June - Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor (died 1873)
* 22 July - Robert McCormick, Royal Navy surgeon (died 1890)
* 22 August - Edward Bouverie Pusey, churchman (died 1882)
* 12 September - William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died 1879)
* 22 September
** George Bentham, botanist (died 1884)
** Thomas Holloway, pharmacist and philanthropist (died 1883)
* 30 September - Decimus Burton, architect and garden designer (died 1881)
* 18 October - Henry Taylor, dramatist (died 1886)
* 25 October - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, poet (died 1859)
* 4 November - George Long, classical scholar (died 1879)
* 18 November - John Nelson Darby, evangelist (died 1882)
* 27 November - Frances Anne Kemble, actress and author (died 1893)
* 4 December - William Fenwick Williams, military leader (died 1883)
* 20 December - Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, statesman (died 1885)
* 25 December - John Phillips, geologist (died 1874)
* 27 December - John Goss, organist and composer (died 1880)

Unknown dates

* Edwin Guest, antiquary (died 1880)
* Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter (died 1869)
* Thomas Henry Lister, novelist (died 1842)
* William Simson, portrait (died 1847)

Deaths

* 6 January - William Jones, divine (born 1726)
* 22 January - George Steevens, Shakespearean commentator (born 1736)
* 23 February - Joseph Warton, academic and literary critic (born 1722)
* 14 March - Daines Barrington, naturalist (born 1727)
* 25 April - William Cowper, poet (born 1731)
* 30 June - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, politician (born 1732)
* 25 August - Elizabeth Montagu, literary critic (born 1720)
* 5 November - Jesse Ramsden, astronomical instrument maker (born 1735)
* 30 November - Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, eccentric nobleman (born 1712)
* 26 December - Mary Robinson, poet (born 1756)
* 27 December - Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718)

Unknown dates

* Samuel Barrington, admiral (born 1729)
* Henry Cort, ironmaster (born 1740)
* George Dixon, sea captain and explorer (born 1755)

References

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