1818 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

6 January - Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain.^[1]
16 April - Court of King's Bench decides the case of Ashford v Thornton, upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle.^[2]^[3]
23 July - The Crown agrees sale of its rights in the royal forest of Exmoor. Thomas Dyke Acland secures a herd of Exmoor ponies, the nucleus of the modern breed.
25 September - In London, Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood.^[4]
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.

Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.
The Old Vic founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres.
Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district.^[5]
First Chubb detector lock produced.^[6]

Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (posthumous; actually issued in December 1817).
John Evelyn's Diary (posthumous).
John Keats' poem Endymion (4 vols.)^[1]
Thomas Love Peacock's novel Nightmare Abbey (anonymous).
Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (as by 'Jedediah Cleishbotham').
Thomas Bowdler's expurgated The Family Shakspeare,^[1] 2nd edn.
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (anonymous).^[7]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems Ozymandias (published as by 'Glirastes' in The Examiner 11 January) and The Revolt of Islam (actually issued in December 1817).
Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel The History of the Fairchild Family (vol. 1; anonymous).^[7]

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, art collector (died 1890)
30 July - Emily Brontë, novelist (died 1848)
24 December - James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)

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

1 2 3 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 249–250. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Hall, Sir John (1926). Trial of Abraham Thornton. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co. Ltd.
↑ Megarry, Sir Robert (2005). A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 1-58477-631-5. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Besses o' th' Barn Band". Besses o' th' Barn Band. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
↑ Baren, Maurice (1997). How Household Names Began. London: Michael O'Mara Books. pp. 43–5. ISBN 1-85479-257-1.
1 2 "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.

Years in the United Kingdom

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1818 in Europe

Sovereign states	Andorra Austria Baden Denmark France Germany Hungary Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Papal States Portugal Prussia Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta

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