1818 in the United Kingdom

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Sport

1818 English cricket season

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III
• Regent – George, Prince Regent
• Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
• Parliament – 5th, 6th

  Events

• 6 January – Treaty of Mundosir annexes Indore and the Rajput states to Britain.
• 16 April – Court of King's Bench decides the case of Ashford v Thornton, upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle. Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight.
• 11 May – the Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John T. Serres.
• 23 July – the Crown agrees sale of its rights in the royal forest of Exmoor. Thomas Dyke Acland secures a herd of Exmoor ponies, the nucleus of the modern breed.
• 25 September – in London, Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood.
• 20 October – a convention between the United States and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary of the former as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.

  Undated

• Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.
• Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed at Whitefield in the Manchester cotton district.
• First Chubb detector lock produced.

  Publications

• Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
• John Evelyn's Diary.
• John Keats' poem Endymion
• Thomas Love Peacock's novel Nightmare Abbey.
• Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian.
• Thomas Bowdler's expurgated The Family Shakspeare, 2nd edn.
• Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems Ozymandias and The Revolt of Islam.
• Mary Martha Sherwood's children's novel The History of the Fairchild Family.

  Births

• 18 January – George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer
• 28 January – Alfred Stevens, sculptor
• 14 February – Emperor Norton, eccentric
• 21 February – George Wilson, chemist
• 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer of South Australia
• 11 June – Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist
• 21 June – Sir Richard Wallace, art collector
• 30 July – Emily Brontë, novelist
• 24 December – James Prescott Joule, physicist

  Deaths

• 6 March – John Gifford, political writer
• 24 March – Humphry Repton, garden designer
• 14 or 16 May – Matthew Lewis, Gothic writer
• 11 August – Robert Carr Brackenbury, Methodist preacher
• 22 August – Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India
• 1 September – Robert Calder, naval officer
• 9 September – Seymour Fleming, noblewoman of scandalous reputation, in France
• 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of George III