1826 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1826 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch – George IV
  • Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
  • Parliament – 7th (until 2 June), 8th (starting 25 July)

Events[]

  • 30 January – the Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.[1]
  • 11 February – University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
  • 15 February – Longstone Lighthouse first illuminated as Outer Farne Lighthouse (Joseph Nelson, engineer).[2]
  • 24 February – Treaty of Yandabo cedes Arakan peninsula to Britain, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War.[3]
  • April – a number of leading scientists form the Zoological Society of London.
  • 1 June to 31 August – A three-month heat wave and drought grips the country. With a mean temperature of 17.60 °C (63.68 °F) this is the hottest summer on the CET records, since 1659, until 1976. After which, it is the second hottest on record.[4]
  • 19 June – Tories under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win a substantial an increased majority over the Whigs in the general election.
  • 20 June – increases British control over south-east Asia.[3]
  • 1 July – the Conway Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened in North Wales, completing his improvements to the Holyhead road.[1]
  • 10 August – the first Cowes Regatta is held on the Isle of Wight.[5]
  • 18 August – explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.[6]
  • 26 September – Alexander Laing murdered in Timbuktu.

Ongoing events[]

  • Anglo-Ashanti war (1823–1831)

Undated[]

  • Country Bankers Act 1826 permits joint-stock banks outside the London area, which may issue banknotes.
  • The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
  • Construction of the National Monument, Edinburgh on Calton Hill (to the dead of the Napoleonic Wars) is commenced; it will never be completed.

Publications[]

  • Benjamin Disraeli's (anonymous) first novel Vivian Grey.
  • Walter Scott's (anonymous) historical novel Woodstock.
  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans' poem Casabianca, in The New Monthly Magazine (August).
  • Christian Isobel Johnstone (as Margaret Dods)'s The Cook and Housewife's Manual.
  • John C. Loudon's periodical The Gardener's Magazine first issued.

Births[]

  • 24 January – Gifford Palgrave, priest, traveller and Arabist (died 1888)
  • 3 February – Walter Bagehot, economist and journalist (died 1877)
  • 15 February – George Johnstone Stoney, Irish-born physicist (died 1911)
  • 20 April – Dinah Craik, née Mulock, novelist and poet (died 1887)
  • 15 or 25 May – Tom Sayers, bare-knuckle boxer (died 1865)
  • 26 May – Richard Carrington, astronomer (died 1875)
  • 18 June – William Maclagan, Archbishop of York (died 1910)
  • 24 June – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898)
  • 7 July – John Fowler, agricultural engineer (died 1864)
  • 20 July – Laura Keene, actress (died 1873)
  • 25 August – William Synge, diplomat and author (died 1891)
  • 5 September – John Wisden, cricketer, creator of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (died 1884)
  • 8 September – Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1891)
  • 24 September – George Price Boyce, Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (died 1897)
  • 23 December – William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist and biographer (died 1884)

Deaths[]

  • 6 January – John Farey Sr., polymath (born 1766)
  • 17 February – John Manners-Sutton, politician (born 1752)
  • 7 March – Ann Freeman, Bible preacher (born 1797)
  • 10 March – John Pinkerton, antiquarian (born 1758)
  • 3 April – Reginald Heber, bishop, poet and travel writer (born 1783)
  • 19 April – John Milner, Roman Catholic bishop and religious controversialist (born 1752)
  • 23 June – John Taylor, Unitarian hymn writer (born 1750)
  • 5 July – Sir Stamford Raffles, colonial governor, founder of Singapore (born 1781)
  • 2 August – George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, cricketer (born 1752)
  • 26 August – Lady Sarah Lennox, courtier (born 1745)
  • 4 September – Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford, lawyer, judge and politician (born 1779)
  • 26 September – Alexander Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer (born 1794)
  • 26 November – John Nichols, printer and author (born 1745)
  • 7 December – John Flaxman, sculptor (born 1755)
  • 31 December – William Gifford, satirist (born 1756)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
  2. ^ London Gazette issue 18217, 4 February 1826 p.244.
  3. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 254–255. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/ssn_HadCET_mean_sort.txt
  5. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  6. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
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