1827 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1827 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - George IV
Prime Minister -
- until 9 April: Lord Liverpool (Tory)
- 10 April-8 August: George Canning (coalition)
- starting 8 August: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (Tory)

17 January - The Duke of Wellington becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.^[1]
1 March - St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, opens its doors to its first students.
7 March - Ellen Turner is abducted – the Shrigley abduction case begins.
7 April - John Walker begins selling his invention, the friction match.^[1]
10 April - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister following the latter's resignation due to ill health after almost fifteen years in office.^[2]
14 May - Culprits in the Shrigley abduction are sentenced to three years each.
18 May - Red Barn Murder in Suffolk: Maria Marten is shot by her lover.
21 May - Launch of the London Standard newspaper.
6 July - Treaty of London between France, Britain and Russia to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
31 August - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the U.K. following the death of Canning, continuing the Canningite Government as the Goderich Ministry.
20 October - Battle of Navarino (Greek War of Independence): British, French and Russian naval forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.^[1] This is the last naval action to be fought under sail alone.

Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion.^[3]
Hue and cry is abolished.^[4]
Setting of mantraps to catch poachers is made illegal.
Yorkshire Philosophical Society begins excavation of St Mary's Abbey, York, prior to construction of the Yorkshire Museum on part of the site.

24 February - Lydia Becker, suffragette (died 1890)
25 March - Edward Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), writer (died 1889)
2 April - Holman Hunt, painter (died 1910)
5 April - Joseph Lister, surgeon (died 1912)
4 May - John Hanning Speke, explorer (died 1864)
17 July - Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist (died 1902)
16 August - Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (died 1894)
24 October - George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Liberal Party politician (died 1909)

2 January - John Mason Good, writer (born 1764)
5 January - Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, heir-presumptive to the throne (born 1763)
26 June - Samuel Crompton, inventor (born 1753)
8 August - George Canning, Prime Minister (born 1770)
12 August - William Blake, poet, painter and printmaker (born 1757)

1 2 3 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
↑ 7 and 8 Geo. IV. c. 27.

Years in the United Kingdom

Years in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Years in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

1827 in Europe

Sovereign states	Andorra Austria Baden Denmark France Germany Greece 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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