1829 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1829 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George IV of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Tory
[edit] Events
- 8 January - Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke. His associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released.
- 13 April - Passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829 by Parliament of the United Kingdom granting Catholic Emancipation.[1]
- 5 June - slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 10 June - University of Oxford win the first Boat Race.[1]
- 19 June - Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service.[1]
- 4 July - George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.[2]
- 29 September - the first police officers of the Metropolitan Police Service, known by the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers", go on patrol in London.[1]
- 8 October - George Stephenson's steam locomotive, The Rocket, defeats John Ericsson's The Novelty and thus wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.[2]
- 4 December - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
- 13 December - Last British hanging for forgery – Thomas Maynard
[edit] Undated
- The last of the Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.
[edit] Publications
- Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein.
[edit] Births
- 17 January - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (died 1890)
- 10 April - William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (died 1912)
- 8 June - John Everett Millais, painter (died 1896)
- 14 July - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1896)
- John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (died 1904)
[edit] Deaths
- 25 January - William Shield, composer, violinist and violist (born 1748)
- 28 January - William Burke, murderer and grave robber, executed (born 1792, Ireland)
- 10 May - Thomas Young, physician and linguist (born 1773)
- 29 May - Sir Humphry Davy, chemist (born 1778)
- 27 June - James Smithson, mineralogist, chemist and founder of the Smithsonian Institute (born 1765)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
