1829 in the United Kingdom
- 1829 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - George IV of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Tory
Events
* 8 January - Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke. His associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released.
* 13 April - Passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829 by Parliament of the United Kingdom granting Catholic Emancipation.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]
* 5 June - slave trade: HMS "Pickle" captures the armed slave ship "Voladora" off the coast of Cuba.
* 10 June - University of Oxford win the first Boat Race.
* 19 June - Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service.
* 4 July - George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.[cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840|accessdate=2007-09-12] ]
* 29 September - the first police officers of the Metropolitan Police Service, known by the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers", go on patrol in London.
* 8 October - George Stephenson's steam locomotive, The Rocket, defeats John Ericsson's The Novelty and thus wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.
* 4 December - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
* 13 December - Last British hanging for forgery – Thomas MaynardUndated
* The last of the Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.
Publications
* Walter Scott's novel "Anne of Geierstein".
Births
* 17 January - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (died 1890)
* 10 April - William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (died 1912)
* 8 June - John Everett Millais, painter (died 1896)
* 14 July - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1896)
* John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (died 1904)
Deaths
* 25 January - William Shield, composer, violinist and violist (born 1748)
* 28 January - William Burke, murderer and grave robber, executed (born 1792, Ireland)
* 10 May - Thomas Young, physician and linguist (born 1773)
* 29 May - Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (born 1778)
* 27 June - James Smithson, mineralogist, chemist and founder of the Smithsonian Institute (born 1765)
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