1822 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1822 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] Events

• 14 June - Charles Babbage proposes a "difference engine", a forerunner of the modern computer.
• 8 July - The Chippewa turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. (See Treaty Timeline - Individual Treaties with maps at [1].)
• 31 July - Last public whipping in Edinburgh.
• 12 August - The visit of King George IV to Scotland.
• 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.
• 22 August - The English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson
• 16 September - George Canning appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
• 20 October - The New Observer newspaper becomes The Sunday Times.^[1]

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• Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
• Britain repeals the death penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
• The Royal Academy of Music is established in London.
• King George III's personal library of 65,000 volumes, 19,000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawings is donated to The British Museum.
• First fossil discovered to be recognised^[vague] as that of a dinosaur by Gideon Mantell or his wife Mary in West Sussex.
• Construction of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton is completed.

[edit] Publications

• Walter Scott novels The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak.

[edit] Births

• 16 February - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
• 18 July - Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
• 24 December - Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)

[edit] Deaths

• January - John Julius Angerstein, merchant and insurer (born 1735)
• 15 January - John Aikin, physician and writer (born 1747)
• 24 February - Thomas Coutts, banker (born 1735)
• 8 July - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (born 1792)
• 12 August - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Foreign Secretary (suicide) (born 1769)
• 25 August - William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (born 1738, Hanover)

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