1824 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1824 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- 8 January - After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.
- 22 January - Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast (See also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy).
- 17 March signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.
- April - National Gallery established when the House of Commons purchases the collection of John Julius Angerstein. [1]
- 7 April - The Mechanics' Institute, now the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, is founded.
- 10 May - First Burmese War: The British take Rangoon.
- 13 September With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
- 10 October - Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain.
- 15 November–16 - A huge fire breaks out on Old Assembly Close in Edinburgh. It destroys two tenements and Tron Kirk church. 11 residents and 2 firemen die, 400 people are left homeless.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
- 8 January - Wilkie Collins, novelist (d. 1889)
- 7 February - William Huggins, astronomer (d. 1910)
- 10 February - Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer (d. 1898)
- 19 March - William Allingham, author (d. 1889)
- 26 June - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
- 10 December - George MacDonald, writer (d. 1905)
- Richard Meux Benson, founder of Society of St. John the Evangelist (d. 1915)
[edit] Deaths
- 19 April - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet (b. 1788)
- 26 May - Capel Lofft, writer (b. 1751)
- 30 October - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish writer (b. 1773)
