Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch George III
• Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool (Tory)

Events

• 6 February Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.^[1]
• 19 February William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.^[1]
• 20 March Burlington Arcade opens in London.
• 21 April–end May John Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci and most of his major odes.^[2]
• 20 June The SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia, United States.^[1]
• 16 August Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.^[3]
• 19 September Keats writes his ode To Autumn at Winchester.^[2]

Undated

• Britannia Monument to Admiral Lord Nelson at Great Yarmouth (the "Norfolk Pillar") is completed.

Publications

• John Polidori's short story The Vampyre.
• Walter Scott's novels Ivanhoe, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose.

Births

• 8 February John Ruskin, writer, artist, and social critic (died 1900)
• 11 March Henry Tate, sugar magnate (died 1899)
• 28 March Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer, (died 1891)
• 24 May Queen Victoria (died 1901)
• 5 June John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892)
• 12 June Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875)
• 1 August Richard Dadd, painter (died 1886)
• 13 August George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
• 26 August Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (died 1861)
• 22 November George Eliot, novelist (died 1880)

Deaths

• 25 August James Watt, inventor (born 1736)
• 6 November Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales and second in line to the throne (born 1796)
• 22 November John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742)
• 19 December Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765)

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