1817 in the United Kingdom:

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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.¹
• 4 March - Habeas Corpus suspended amidst fears of insurrection (to January 1818).¹
• 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.¹
• 18 June - Waterloo Bridge opens in London.²
• 5 July - the Sovereign coin reintroduced.²

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.¹
• Gas lighting installed at Covent Garden Theatre.¹

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

See also