1802 in the United Kingdom
- 1802 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1802 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Incumbents
*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Henry Addington, Tory
Events
* 27 March - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.[cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=354] ]
* 5 July to 28 August - General election brings victory for the Tories led by Henry Addington.
* August - West India Docks, first commercial docks in London, open.[cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 238-239|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2] ]
* 2 December - Factory Act (also known as the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act) regulates conditions of child workers in factories.Undated
* Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
* London Fever Hospital founded.
* Sir William Herschel first uses the term binary star to refer to a star which revolves around another star.
* Thomas Wedgwood discovers a method of creating photographs using silver nitrate.
* Goodwood Racecourse laid out.Publications
* "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border", collection of Scottish ballads by Walter Scott.
* "Westminster Bridge", poem by William Wordsworth.
Births
* 3 January - Charles Pelham Villiers, politician (died 1898)
* 6 February - Charles Wheatstone, scientist and inventor (died 1875)
* 7 March - Edwin Henry Landseer, painter (died 1873)
* 10 July - Robert Chambers, author and publisher (died 1871)
* 23 December - Sara Coleridge, scholar (died 1852)
Deaths
* 28 January - Joseph Wall, army officer, colonial governor and murderer (born 1737)
* 2 February - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, statesman (born 1713)
* 18 April - Erasmus Darwin, physician and botanist (born 1731)
* 9 November - Thomas Girtin, artist (born 1775)
* 15 November - George Romney, artist (born 1734)
References
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