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   Date  Event(s)
1 1803 
  • 12 May 1803—1815: Peace of Amiens ends - resumption of war with France - The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
2 1814 
  • 1 Jan 1814: Invasion of France by Allies
  • 6 Apr 1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
  • 13 Aug 1814: Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch
  • 24 Aug 1814: The British burn the White House
  • 29 Nov 1814: "The Times" first printed by a 'mechanical apparatus' (at 1,100 sheets per hour)
  • 24 Dec 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed ending the 1812 war between Britain and the US
3 1815 
  • Trial by Jury established in Scotland
  • Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
  • 18 Jun 1815: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
4 1816 
  • Income tax abolished
  • For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially below their face value – the first official 'token' coinage
  • Climate: the 'year without a summer' – followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain "Tambora" in Indonesia the previous year, the biggest volcanic explosion in 10,000 years
  • Large scale emigration to North America
  • Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
5 1817 
  • March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
  • Constable painted "Flatford Mill"
6 1818 
  • Manchester cotton spinners' strike
  • 20 Oct 1818: 'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length
7 1819 
  • Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular
  • Britain returns to gold standard
  • Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles
  • May 1819: SS "Savannah" first steamship to cross Atlantic, reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 days, mostly under sail)
  • 16 Aug 1819: Peterloo Massacre at Manchester – a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester – demand Parliamentary Reform – mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others
8 1820 
  • Cato Street Conspiracy – plot to assissinate British cabinet
  • Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition
  • 29 Jan 1820: Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
  • 1 Aug 1820: Regent's Canal in London opens
  • 17 Aug 1820: Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her – George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her – Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords
9 1821 
  • Faraday publishes "Principles of electro-magnetic rotation"
  • Constable paints "The Hay Wain"
  • 5 May 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
10 1822 
  • 14 Jun 1822: Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
11 1823 
  • New laws concerning marriage by licence – 'very troublesome' according to some: "the Act was repealed, all in a hurry, at the beginning of the next session"
  • Peel begins penal reforms death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes
  • Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School
  • Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh
  • 2 Dec 1823: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')
12 1824 
  • RSPCA established
  • Portland cement patented
  • 4 Mar 1824: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" until 1854)
  • 10 May 1824: National Gallery in London opens to the public
13 1825 
  • 27 Sep 1825: Stockton to Darlington Railway opens – world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains
14 1827 
  • Ohm's Law published
15 1828 
  • 25 Oct 1828: St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)
16 1829 
  • London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed "Bobbies" after Sir Robert Peel
  • Louis Braille invents his sytem of finger-reading for the blind
  • 10 Jun 1829: First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
  • 6 Oct 1829: George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to complete the trial!)
  

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