1817 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1817 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] Events

• 10 March - The Blanketeers march from Manchester to London.
• 3 April - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire.

[edit] Unknown dates

• Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum.
• John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar.
• A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

[edit] Publications

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
• Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy.

[edit] Births

• 6 January - J. J. McCarthy, architect (d. 1882)
• 8 January - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (d. 1893)
• 30 June - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (d. 1911)

[edit] Deaths

• July 18 - Jane Austen, novelist (b. 1775)