1829 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1829
Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution, Aged 141 by William Heath : The Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel as Burke and Hare smother the Bill of Rights 1689 by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 8 January – Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke in Edinburgh . His associate William Hare , who has testified against him, is released.
26 January – First performance of Douglas Jerrold's comic nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan ; or, All in the DownsSurrey Theatre in Lambeth ; it will run for a new record of well over 150 performances.[ 1]
1–2 February – York Minster is extensively damaged in a fire started by Jonathan Martin (who is subsequently acquitted of arson on the grounds of insanity ).[ 2]
March 5 – Jack Adams , last of the Bounty Pitcairn Island .
21 March – A duel is fought between the Prime Minister (the Duke of Wellington ) and George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea , in Battersea Fields , provoked by the Duke's support for Catholic emancipation and foundation of the secular King's College London . Deliberately off-target shots are fired by both and honour is satisfied without injury.
27 March – Zoological Society of London receives its royal charter .
April–September – The composer Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This includes (June) the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream Fingal's Cave .[ 3]
13 April – Passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act by Parliament of the United Kingdom granting Catholic Emancipation .[ 4]
5 June – Slave trade : HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba .
10 June – The Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race ,[ 4] Henley-on-Thames .[ 5]
19 June – Robert Peel 's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service .[ 4]
30 June – Henry Robinson Palmer files a patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.[ 6]
4 July – George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.[ 7]
2–3 August – The "Muckle Spate ", a great flood of the River Findhorn which devastates much of Strathspey, Scotland , washing away many bridges.[ 8]
14 August – King's College London founded by Royal Charter
29 September – The first police officers of the Metropolitan Police Service, known by the nicknames "bobbies" or "peelers", go on patrol in London.[ 4] Stephenson's Rocket at The Rainhill Trials (model)
Ongoing
Publications
Births
17 January – Catherine Booth , Mother of The Salvation Army (died 1890)
2 February – William Stanley , inventor (died 1909)
6 March – Arthur Blomfield , architect (died 1899)
10 April – William Booth , founder of The Salvation Army (died 1912)
4 June – Allan Octavian Hume , member of the Indian civil service and "the Father of Indian Ornithology" (died 1912)
5 June – George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen , Scottish-born businessman in Canada and philanthropist (died 1921)
8 June – John Everett Millais , Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1896)
16 June – Bessie Rayner Parkes , journalist and feminist (died 1925)
14 July – Edward White Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1896)
25 July – Elizabeth Siddal , Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet (died 1862)
25 September – William Michael Rossetti , critic (died 1919)
9 November – Sir Peter Lumsden , Scottish general in the Indian army (died 1918)
John Lowther du Plat Taylor , founder of the Army Post Office Corps (died 1904)
Deaths
15 January – John Mastin , local historian, memoirist and clergyman (born 1747)
25 January – William Shield , composer, violinist and violist (born 1748)
28 January – William Burke , murderer and grave robber, executed (born 1792 in Ireland)
1 March – Thomas Earnshaw , watchmaker (born 1749)
8 May – Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester , barrister, statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1759)
10 May – Thomas Young , physician and linguist (born 1773)
29 May – Sir Humphry Davy , chemist (born 1778)
27 June – James Smithson , mineralogist, chemist and sponsor of the Smithsonian Institution (born 1765)
7 August – John Reeves , conservative activist, public servant and legal historian (born 1752)
10 October – Maria Elizabetha Jacson , botanist (born 1755)
28 December – Bill Richmond , bare-knuckle welterweight boxer (born 1763 in British America)
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