1818 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1818 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] Events

• 11 March - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.^[1]
• 4 August - the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool win the general election.
• 20 October - A convention between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.

[edit] Publications

• The first volume of Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel The History of the Fairchild Family.^[1]
• Jane Austen's novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (posthumous).
• Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian.

[edit] Births

• 18 January - George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer (died 1897)
• 21 February - George Wilson, chemist (died 1859)
• 22 March - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (died 1846)
• 11 June - Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903)
• 30 July - Emily Brontë, novelist (died 1848)
• 24 December - James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889)

[edit] Deaths

• 22 August - Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
• 17 November - Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)

[edit] References