1825 in the United Kingdom

1825 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1825 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George IV
• Prime Minister - Earl of Liverpool (Tory)

Events

• 1 March - The outbound East Indiaman Kent (1820) is destroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but over 550 are saved by passing ships.
• 21 March - British première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1824) is presented by the Philharmonic Society of London.
• 23 April - Royal Charter granted to the Geological Society of London.
• 22 June - Cotton Mills Regulation Act establishes a maximum 12-hour day for children under 16.
• 18 August - Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais. His actions lead to the Panic of 1825, the first modern stock market crash, starting in the Bank of England and precipitating the closure of six London banks and sixty country ones in England.
• 15 September - Royal Charter granted to the Royal Society of Literature.
• 27 September - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens with engineer George Stephenson driving the first public train pulled by the steam engine Locomotion No 1.
• 21 October - PS Comet II sinks off Gourock in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of 62 lives.
• 10 November - Royal Charter granted to the Van Diemen's Land Company.

Ongoing

• Anglo-Ashanti war (1823–1831)
• First Burmese War (1824–1826)

Undated

• The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.
• A new Combination Act makes Trades unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.
• Reconstruction of Buckingham Palace by architect John Nash.
• Michael Faraday isolates benzene.
• Cox's Orange Pippin apple cultivar first grown, at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire by horticulturist and retired brewer Richard Cox.
• At about this date London is estimated to overtake Peking as the world's largest city.

Publications

• Walter Scott's novels The Betrothed and The Talisman.
• First publication of Samuel Pepys' Diary (1660–1669), edited by Lord Braybrooke from the transcription by Rev. John Smith.

Births

• 14 March - Elizabeth Anne Finn, writer (died 1921)
• March - William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel 'poet and tragedian' (died 1902)
• 24 April - R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
• 4 May - Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (died 1895)
• 8 May - George Bruce Malleson, officer and author (died 1898)
• 24 June - William Henry Smith, politician and founder of stationers W H Smith (died 1891)
• 13 November - Charles Frederick Worth, couturier (died 1895)

Deaths

• 6 March - Samuel Parr, schoolmaster (born 1747)
• 27 June - Edward Pigott, astronomer (born 1753)
• 20 August - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (born 1753)
• 25 October - David Bogue, nonconformist leader (born 1750)