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UK-related events during the year of 1801
1801 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year
1801 in the
United Kingdom . The
Acts of Union 1800 came into force this year.
Portrait of Henry Addington by
William Beechey .
Philip James de Loutherbourg 's
Coalbrookdale by Night (1801)
1 January
14 January – Britain places embargoes on vessels of the
Second League of Armed Neutrality of the North.
2 February –
Parliament of the United Kingdom meets for the first time.
[3]
5 February –
William Pitt the Younger tenders his resignation as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
[1]
1 March –
London Stock Exchange founded
[1] as a regulated institution; its new building is completed on 30 December.
8 March – Second
Battle of Abukir : a British Army under
Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops.
[1]
10 March – The first British census is carried out. The count is conducted by clergy, overseers of the poor and schoolmasters. The population of
England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million,
[4] with
London revealed to have 860,035 residents.
14 March –
William Pitt the Younger resigns over
Catholic Emancipation , having first tendered his resignation on 5 February.
16 March – Edinburgh music teacher
Anne Gunn is granted the first British
patent for a
board game , designed as a music teaching aid.
[5]
17 March –
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth becomes
Prime Minister .
[1]
21 March –
Battle of Alexandria : Abercromby's forces defeat those of the French in the
Egyptian city of
Alexandria .
[1]
2 April –
Battle of Copenhagen in the
War of the Second Coalition : The
Royal Navy under
Admiral Sir Hyde Parker forces the
Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy to accept an
armistice . Vice-Admiral
Horatio Nelson leads the main attack, deliberately disregarding his commander's signal to withdraw.
[1]
19 May –
Nelson is created Viscount Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, for his part in the strategic victory at
Copenhagen .
[6]
18 June –
Cairo falls to British troops.
[1]
6 July –
Battle of Algeciras : The French fleet achieves victory over the British.
12 July –
Second Battle of Algeciras : The British fleet defeats the French and Spanish.
18 July –
Matthew Flinders sets out on a voyage to produce a detailed survey of the coastline of Australia, the southern coast of which is still unknown.
[7]
30 September – The Treaty of London is signed for peace between the
First French Republic and the United Kingdom as a preliminary to the
Treaty of Amiens .
24 November – The
Duke of Sussex first conferred, on
Prince Augustus Frederick .
26 November –
Charles Hatchett announces his discovery of the chemical element
niobium to the
Royal Society .
[1]
24 December –
Richard Trevithick demonstrates the first steam-powered vehicle to carry passengers at
Camborne .
[1]
4 January –
James Giles , painter (died 1870)
14 January –
Jane Welsh Carlyle , letter–writer (died 1866)
2 February
7 February –
John Rylands , weaver, entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 1888)
13 February –
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer , politician, diplomat and writer (died 1872)
21 February –
John Henry Newman , Roman Catholic Cardinal, canonised (died 1890)
24 April –
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury , politician (died 1893)
28 April –
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury , politician and philanthropist (died 1885)
9 May –
Samuel Cousins , engraver (died 1887)
4 June –
James Pennethorne , architect (died 1871)
10 June –
Joseph Rowntree , educationist (died 1859)
24 June –
Caroline Clive , author (died 1873)
15 August –
Charles Elliot , naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator (died 1875)
27 December –
Charles Clay , surgeon (died 1893)
date unknown –
Charles George James Arbuthnot , general, born at sea (died 1870)
28 March –
Ralph Abercromby , general (born 1734)
2 April –
Thomas Dadford, Jr. , engineer (year of birth unknown)
3 May (bur.) –
Mary Lacy , shipwright and naval pensioner (born c.1740)
17 May –
William Heberden , physician (born 1710)
14 June –
Benedict Arnold , spy and Army officer (born 1741 in
Connecticut Colony )
7 July –
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth , statesman (born 1731)
9 September –
Gilbert Wakefield , scholar (born 1756)
Autumn –
David Levi , scholar (born 1742)
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