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1810 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year1810 in theUnited Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

19 February – RadicalJohn Gale Jones is called before the House of Commons for a breach of privilege, for which he is committed toNewgate Prison until 21 June.^[1]
April – Rioting in London after the imprisonment in theTower of London of SirFrancis Burdett,MP, charged with libel against Parliament after calling for reform of theHouse of Commons;^[2] he is released in June.
3 May –Lord Byron swims across theHellespont inTurkey.^[3]
10 May – Rev.Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercialsavings bank inRuthwell,Dumfriesshire.^[4]
15 June – Radical journalistWilliam Cobbett is found guilty of treasonouslibel for an article in hisPolitical Register critical of the flogging of militiamen and sentenced to two years' inNewgate Prison.^[5]
8 July –Vere Street Coterie: Police raid a "molly house" inLondon and arrest 27 men forsodomy or attempted sodomy; a man and a boy are eventually hanged on conviction.
20–27 August –Battle of Grand Port: TheFrench force theRoyal Navy fleet attempting to blockade a harbour onIsle de France (Mauritius) to surrender.
October – KingGeorge III recognised as insane.
10 November –Paisley canal disaster in Scotland: A pleasure craft capsizes with the loss of 84 lives.^[6]
23 November – ActressSarah Booth makes her first appearance at theTheatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
26 November – RadicalJohn Gale Jones is sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for a libel onLord Castlereagh.^[1]
29 November–3 December –Invasion of Isle de France: British forces oblige the French to surrenderIsle de France (Mauritius).
14 December – The UK's strongest ever recordedtornado strikesPortsmouth with a top wind speed of 213 to 240 mph (343 to 386 km/h) (T8 (F4) rating).
19 December –Frigates HMS Nymphe andHMS Pallas are wrecked nearDunbar.^[7]
22 December – Eight crew of theHoylake life-boat in theMersey estuary are drowned on service;HMS Minotaur (1793) is wrecked onTexel in theWest Frisian Islands with the loss of 500 lives.
27 December – CharteredEast IndiamanElizabeth is wrecked offDunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives.

Undated

Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues established by merging the former offices ofSurveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases andSurveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown into a three-man commission.^[8]
General Union of Spinners organises strike action to raise wages in the smallercotton centres to theManchester level.
Chlorine named byHumphry Davy.
Rev. Dr.William Pearson establishesTemple Grove School atEast Sheen,^[9] perhaps the earliestpreparatory school in the country.
Sake Dean Mahomet opens theHindoostane Coffee House, the firstIndian restaurant inLondon.^[10]
Palm oil sales from West Africa to Britain reach 1,000 tons.

Ongoing

Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812
Peninsular War, 1808–1814

Publications

George Crabbe's epistolatory poemThe Borough.
Walter Scott's narrative poemThe Lady of the Lake.
Launch of theCarmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper inWales.

Births

12 January –John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (died 1882)
15 January –John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
19 January –Talhaiarn, poet and architect (died 1869)
24 January –Thomas Jones, missionary (died 1849)
10 March –Samuel Ferguson, poet and artist (died 1886)
27 March -William Hepworth Thompson, classical scholar (died 1886)
30 March –Pablo Fanque, black circus owner, popularized by The Beatles in song (died1871)
5 April -Sir Henry Rawlinson, politician and Orientalist (died 1895)
21 April -Thomas Wright, antiquarian (died 1877)
17 July -Martin Farquhar Tupper, poet and writer (died 1889)
29 September –Elizabeth Gaskell, née Stevenson, novelist (died 1865)

Deaths

26 January –James Martin, radical politician (born 1738)
24 February –Henry Cavendish, scientist (born 1731)
7 March –Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (born 1748)
24 March –Mary Tighe, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1772)
3 April –Twm o'r Nant, Welsh dramatist and poet (born 1739)
26 April –John Metcalf, English roadbuilder (born 1717)
15 May –Francis Hews, Baptist preacher in Bedfordshire
21 May –Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (born 1728)
4 June –William Windham, Whig statesman (born 1750)
2 November –Princess Amelia, member of the Royal Family (born 1783)
15 December –Sarah Trimmer, writer for children (born 1741)
probable –William Cruickshank, Scottish military surgeon, chemist and inventor

References

^^a ^b This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Courtney, William Prideaux (1892). "Jones, John Gale". InLee, Sidney (ed.).Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London:Smith, Elder & Co.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 244.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^"Chronology of Scottish History".A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved10 March 2014.
^Dyck, Ian (2004)."Cobbett, William (1763–1835)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved23 July 2011.(subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required)
^The Times (London) 1810-11-19 8144: 3.
^"Isle of May".Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved27 August 2014.
^Annual Report of Commissioners of Woods & Forests 1811.
^"History of Temple Grove School"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 13 March 2011. Retrieved20 April 2012.
^"Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820". Archived fromthe original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved11 September 2007.

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