1821 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1821 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] Events

The coronation banquet for George IV

• 16 January - The Tories under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win the general election which had begun in 1820.
• 18 February - Launch of the New Observer newspaper, later to become The Sunday Times.^[1]
• 5 May - The Guardian newspaper founded (originally as The Manchester Guardian).^[1]
• 7 May - Bank of England returns to the gold standard.^[2]
• 4 July - Redesigned Haymarket Theatre opens.^[2]
• 19 July - George IV is crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;^[3] Caroline of Brunswick is excluded from the coronation.

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• John Constable completes his painting The Hay Wain.^[4]

[edit] Publications

• Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley's elegy Adonais.

[edit] Births

• 3 February - Elizabeth Blackwell, abolitionist and women's rights activist (died 1910)
• 17 February - Lola Montez, dancer and mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria (died 1861 (United States))
• 15 March - William Milligan, theologian (died 1892)
• 19 March - Richard Francis Burton, explorer (died 1890)
• 3 April - T. Pelham Dale mystic (died 1892)
• 11 October - George Williams, founder of the YMCA (died 1905)
• 30 November - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1902)
• 11 December - George Granville Bradley, divine and scholar (died 1903)

[edit] Deaths

• 23 February - John Keats, poet (born 1795)
• 4 March - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) (born 1820)
• 7 August - Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort of King George IV (born 1768)

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