1824 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1824 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

* 8 January - After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.
* 22 January - Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast (See also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy).
* 4 March - Sir William Hillary founds the "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck", now known as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 17 March signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
* April - National Gallery established when the House of Commons purchases the collection of John Julius Angerstein. [ [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about/history/establish/establishment.htm NG London/Establishment of the National Gallery] ]
* 7 April - The Mechanics' Institute, now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, is founded.
* 10 May - First Burmese War: The British take Rangoon.
* 13 September With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the "Amity", John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
* 10 October - Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain.
* 15 November–16 - A huge fire breaks out on Old Assembly Close in Edinburgh. It destroys two tenements and Tron Kirk church. 11 residents and 2 firemen die, 400 people are left homeless.

Undated

* Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 252-253|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]

Ongoing events

* First Burmese War (1823–1826)

Publications

* Walter Scott's novels "St. Ronan's Well" and "Redgauntlet".

Births

* 8 January - Wilkie Collins, novelist (died 1889)
* 7 February - William Huggins, astronomer (died 1910)
* 10 February - Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer (died 1898)
* 19 March - William Allingham, author (died 1889)
* 26 June - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist and engineer (died 1907)
* 10 December - George MacDonald, writer (died 1905)
* Richard Meux Benson, founder of Society of St. John the Evangelist (died 1915)

Deaths

* 1 February - John Lemprière, classical scholar (born 1765, Jersey)
* 19 April - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet (born 1788)
* 26 May - Capel Lofft, writer (born 1751)
* 25 July - William Sharp, engraver (born 1749)
* 30 October - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish writer (born 1773)

References

ee also