1817 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1817 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Tory

Events

* February - Last major Luddite attack, against lace-making machines in Loughborough.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 249-250|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 4 March - Habeas Corpus suspended amidst fears of insurrection (to January 1818).
* 10 March - The Blanketeers march from Manchester to London.
* 3 April - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire.
* 9 June - Army prevents protesting labourers from Derbyshire marching on Nottingham.
* 18 June - Waterloo Bridge opens in London.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 5 July - the Sovereign coin reintroduced.

Undated

* Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum.
* John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar.
* A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
* John Constable paints "Flatford Mill".
* Gas lighting installed at Covent Garden Theatre.

Publications

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria".
* Walter Scott's novel "Rob Roy".

Births

* 6 January - J. J. McCarthy, architect (died 1882)
* 8 January - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (died 1893)
* 30 June - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (died 1911)

Deaths

* July 18 - Jane Austen, novelist (born 1775)

References

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