1805 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory
[edit] Events
- 20 January - London Docks open.[1]
- 4 June - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
- 21 October - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.[2]
[edit] Undated
- John Dalton's Absorption of Gases, the first list of relative atomic masses published
[edit] Births
- 27 January - Samuel Palmer, artist (d. 1881)
- 29 August - Frederick Maurice, theologian (d. 1872)
- 22 December - John Obadiah Westwood, entomologist (d. 1893)
[edit] Deaths
- 2 January - Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733)
- 3 January - Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737)
- 30 January - John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
- 18 January - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730)
- 2 February - Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
- 25 February - Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722)
- 7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)
- 25 May - William Paley, philosopher (born 1743)
- 3 August - Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724)
- 28 August - Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722)
- 5 October - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738)
- 21 October - Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ British History Timeline, BBC History. Retrieved on 2007-09-11.
