1821 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1821
Events from the year 1821 in the United Kingdom . This is a census year.
Incumbents
Events
The coronation banquet for George IV Coronation portrait of George of IV Thomas Lawrence The Banquet at the Coronation of George IV George Jones .16 January – The governing Tories under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win the general election which had begun in 1820.
2 February – Cinderloo Uprising : Shropshire Yeomanry fire on a crowd of miners striking over a pay cut in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield , killing three.[ 1]
16 February – John Scott , editor of The London Magazine Chalk Farm Tavern just outside London.
18 February – Launch of the New Observer newspaper, later to become The Sunday Times [ 2]
April–May – John Constable completes his painting The Hay Wain [ 3]
5 May
The deposed French Emperor Napoleon dies a prisoner in British military custody on the island of Saint Helena .
The Guardian The Manchester Guardian .[ 2]
7 May – Bank of England returns to the gold standard .[ 4]
28 May – The national census is the first to measure age distribution and reveals that almost half of the population is under twenty years old.[ 5]
4 July – The redesigned Haymarket Theatre opens in London 's West End .[ 4]
19 July – George IV is crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland .[ 6] Caroline of Brunswick , is turned away from the ceremony (she fell ill that evening and dies 3 weeks later). This is the last coronation at which the full ceremony of the King's Champion is carried out, and at which dillegrout is served.
31 July – Opening of the Eau Brink Cut, improving the outfall of the River Great Ouse at King's Lynn in Norfolk . Engineers working on the project included John Rennie the Elder , Thomas Telford and Thomas Hyde Page .[ 7]
12 August–3 September – George IV becomes the first monarch to pay a state visit to Ireland since the 14th century.[ 8]
Undated
Elizabeth Fry and others establish the British Ladies' Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners, an early example of a national women's organisation.
Publications
Births
2 January – Catherine Huggins , actor, singer, director and manager (died 1887)
3 February – Elizabeth Blackwell , physician, abolitionist and women's rights activist (died 1910)
17 February – Lola Montez , born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Irish-born "Spanish dancer" and mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria (died 1861 in the United States)
8 March – James Sheridan Muspratt , Irish-born research chemist and teacher (died 1871)
15 March – William Milligan , Scottish theologian (died 1893)
19 March – Richard Francis Burton , explorer, orientalist and translator (died 1890)
25 March – Isabella Banks , poet and novelist (died 1897)
28 March – William Howard Russell , Irish-born war correspondent (died 1907)
3 April – T. Pelham Dale , mystic (died 1892)
12 April – Beauchamp Seymour , admiral (died 1895)
16 April – Ford Madox Brown , painter (died 1893)
21 April – Philip Henry Delamotte , pioneer photographer (died 1889)
26 April – Robert Adamson , Scottish pioneer photographer (died 1848)
27 April – Henry Willis , organ builder (died 1901)
29 May – Frederick Locker-Lampson , man of letters (died 1895)
16 June – Old Tom Morris , Scottish golfer (died 1908)
30 June – William Hepworth Dixon , historian, traveller and journal editor (died 1879)
9 July
16 August – Arthur Cayley , mathematician (died 1895)
28 August – Thomas Seddon , landscape painter (died 1856 in Egypt)
11 October – George Williams , founder of the YMCA (died 1905)
30 November – Frederick Temple , Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1902)
11 December – George Granville Bradley , Dean of Westminster and scholar (died 1903)
Deaths
23 February – John Keats , poet, of tuberculosis in Rome (born 1795)
4 March – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence , daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) (born 1820)
2 May – Hester Thrale , diarist and patron of the arts (born 1741?)
28 May – Charles Alfred Stothard , draughtsman (born 1786)
15 June – John Ballantyne , Scottish publisher (born 1774)
4 July – Richard Cosway , portrait painter (born 1742)
7 August – Caroline of Brunswick , estranged queen consort of King George IV, intestinal obstruction (born 1768)
1 August – Elizabeth Inchbald , novelist and dramatist (born 1753)
24 August – John William Polidori , physician and writer, probable suicide (born 1795)
4 October – John Rennie the Elder , civil engineer (born 1761)
5 October – Claudius Rich , archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1787)
November – Alexander Gordon , distiller (born 1742)
17 November – James Burney , rear-admiral and naval writer (born 1750)
4 December – John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker , politician (born 1752)
5 December – Henry Noble Shipton , army officer (born 1797)
12 December – Phoebe Hessel , female soldier (born 1713)
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Further reading
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