1801 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1801
1801 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1801 in the United Kingdom Acts of Union 1800 came into force this year.
Incumbents
Portrait of Henry Addington William Beechey .Philip James de Loutherbourg 's Coalbrookdale by Night
Events
1 January
14 January – Britain places embargoes on vessels of the Second League of Armed Neutrality of the North.
2 February – Parliament of the United Kingdom meets for the first time.[ 3]
5 February – William Pitt the Younger tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .[ 1]
1 March – London Stock Exchange founded[ 1]
8 March – Second Battle of Abukir : a British Army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops.[ 1]
10 March – The first British census is carried out. The count is conducted by clergy, overseers of the poor and schoolmasters. The population of England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million,[ 4] London revealed to have 860,035 residents.
14 March – William Pitt the Younger resigns over Catholic Emancipation , having first tendered his resignation on 5 February.
16 March – Edinburgh music teacher Anne Gunn is granted the first British patent for a board game , designed as a music teaching aid.[ 5]
17 March – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth becomes Prime Minister .[ 1]
21 March – Battle of Alexandria : Abercromby's forces defeat those of the French in the Egyptian city of Alexandria .[ 1]
2 April – Battle of Copenhagen in the War of the Second Coalition : The Royal Navy under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker forces the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy to accept an armistice . Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson leads the main attack, deliberately disregarding his commander's signal to withdraw.[ 1]
19 May – Nelson is created Viscount Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, for his part in the strategic victory at Copenhagen .[ 6]
18 June – Cairo falls to British troops.[ 1]
6 July – Battle of Algeciras : The French fleet achieves victory over the British.
12 July – Second Battle of Algeciras : The British fleet defeats the French and Spanish.
18 July – Matthew Flinders sets out on a voyage to produce a detailed survey of the coastline of Australia, the southern coast of which is still unknown.[ 7]
30 September – The Treaty of London is signed for peace between the First French Republic and the United Kingdom as a preliminary to the Treaty of Amiens .
24 November – The Duke of Sussex first conferred, on Prince Augustus Frederick .
26 November – Charles Hatchett announces his discovery of the chemical element niobium to the Royal Society .[ 1]
24 December – Richard Trevithick demonstrates the first steam-powered vehicle to carry passengers at Camborne .[ 1]
Ongoing
Undated
Births
4 January – James Giles , painter (died 1870)
14 January – Jane Welsh Carlyle , letter–writer (died 1866)
2 February
7 February – John Rylands , weaver, entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 1888)
13 February – Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer , politician, diplomat and writer (died 1872)
21 February – John Henry Newman , Roman Catholic Cardinal, canonised (died 1890)
24 April – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury , politician (died 1893)
28 April – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury , politician and philanthropist (died 1885)
9 May – Samuel Cousins , engraver (died 1887)
4 June – James Pennethorne , architect (died 1871)
10 June – Joseph Rowntree , educationist (died 1859)
24 June – Caroline Clive , author (died 1873)
15 August – Charles Elliot , naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator (died 1875)
27 December – Charles Clay , surgeon (died 1893)
date unknown – Charles George James Arbuthnot , general, born at sea (died 1870)
Deaths
28 March – Ralph Abercromby , general (born 1734)
2 April – Thomas Dadford, Jr. , engineer (year of birth unknown)
3 May (bur.) – Mary Lacy , shipwright and naval pensioner (born c.1740)
17 May – William Heberden , physician (born 1710)
14 June – Benedict Arnold , spy and Army officer (born 1741 in Connecticut Colony )
7 July – William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth , statesman (born 1731)
9 September – Gilbert Wakefield , scholar (born 1756)
Autumn – David Levi , scholar (born 1742)
References
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