1805 in the United Kingdom
- 1805 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Incumbents
*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory
Events
* 20 January - London Docks open.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]
* 4 June - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
* 3 August - The annual cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School played for the first time.
* 21 October - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot. [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtml |title=British History Timeline, BBC History|accessdate=2007-09-11]
Undated
* John Dalton's "Absorption of Gases", the first list of relative atomic masses published
* Charles Manners-Sutton enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Births
* 27 January - Samuel Palmer, artist (died 1881)
* 29 August - Frederick Maurice, theologian (died 1872)
* 22 December - John Obadiah Westwood, entomologist (died 1893)
Deaths
* 2 January - Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733)
* 3 January - Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737)
* 30 January - John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
* 18 January - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730)
* 2 February - Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
* 25 February - Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722)
* 7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)
* 25 May - William Paley, philosopher (born 1743)
* 3 August - Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724)
* 28 August - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722)
* 5 October - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738)
* 21 October - Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758)
References
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