1825 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1825
Events from the year 1825 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 March – A fire destroys the outbound East Indiaman Kent Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but passing ships save over 550.
21 March – British première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1824) is presented by the Philharmonic Society of London at its Argyll Rooms conducted by Sir George Smart (and with the choral "Ode to Joy " sung in Italian).
23 April – Royal charter granted to the Geological Society of London .[ 1]
15 June – Work on the new London Bridge , designed by John Rennie , begins.
22 June – Cotton Mills Regulation Act establishes a maximum of 12-hour day for children under 16.[ 2]
July – England and Wales' dryest July on record, with a rainfall average of 8.2mm; from 14–19 July consecutively, the daytime maxima in London exceed 90 °F (32 °C).
6 July – A new Combinations of Workmen Act makes trade unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.
18 August – Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais. His actions lead to the Panic of 1825 , the first modern stock market crash , starting in the Bank of England and precipitating the closure of six London banks and sixty country ones in England.
15 September – Royal charter granted to the Royal Society of Literature .[ 1]
27 September – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway , opens with engineer George Stephenson driving the first public train pulled by the steam engine Locomotion No 1 [ 3]
21 October – PS Comet II sinks off Gourock in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of 62 lives.
10 November – Royal charter granted to the Van Diemen's Land Company .[ 1]
19 December – First of the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London, which is still continuing two centuries later.
Undated
Publications
Births
10 February – Geoffrey Hornby , admiral (died 1895)
22 February – Elizabeth Ferard , Anglican deaconess (died 1883)
14 March – Elizabeth Anne Finn , writer on the Holy Land and humanitarian (died 1921)
28 March – A. J. Mundella , hosiery manufacturer and reforming Liberal politician (died 1897)
March – William McGonagall , Scottish doggerel 'poet and tragedian' (died 1902)
24 April – R. M. Ballantyne , Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
1 May – Eleanor Vere Boyle , watercolourist and illustrator (died 1916)
4 May – Thomas Henry Huxley , biologist (died 1895)
8 May – George Bruce Malleson , colonel and writer on India (died 1898)
9 May – James Collinson , Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1881)
7 June – R. D. Blackmore , novelist (died 1900)
24 June – William Henry Smith , founder of bookseller W H Smith and politician (died 1891)
13 October – Charles Frederick Worth , fashion designer, father of haute couture (died 1895 in France)
23 December (probable year) – Lord George Sanger , showman (died 1911)
Deaths
22 February – Eleanor Anne Porden , poet (born 1795)
24 February – Thomas Bowdler , editor and physician (born 1754)
6 March – Samuel Parr , schoolmaster (born 1747)
7 March – Samuel Best , self-proclaimed prophet (born 1738)[ 6]
27 March – Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres , general (born 1752)
13 May – Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth , diplomat (born 1752)
27 June – Edward Pigott , astronomer (born 1753)
20 August – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock , admiral, Governor of Newfoundland (born 1753)
4 September – Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (born 1748)
25 October – David Bogue , nonconformist leader (born 1750)
7 November – Charlotte Dacre , Gothic novelist (born c. 1772)
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