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Events from the year 1823 in the United Kingdom.

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20 February - Explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74°15' S and longitude 34°16'45" W: the southernmost position any ship had ever reached before, a record that would hold for more than 80 years.
March - Royal Academy of Music opens.^[1]
17 June - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats.^[2]
July - Robert Peel ensures the passage of five Acts of Parliament, abolishing the death penalty for over one hundred offences.^[1]
4 July - Transportation Act 1823 allows convicts transported to the colonies to be employed on public works.^[1]
10 July - Gaols Act 1823 passed by Parliament, based on the prison reform campaign of Elizabeth Fry.^[1]
23 September First Burmese War: Burmese attack the British on Shapura, an island close to Chittagong.
November - According to tradition, William Webb Ellis invents rugby.^[1]

26 January - Edward Jenner, physician and medical researcher (born 1749)
27 January - Charles Hutton, mathematician (born 1737)
7 February - Ann Radcliffe, writer (born 1764)
26 February - John Philip Kemble, actor (born 1757)
14 March - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Royal Navy admiral (born 1735)
23 April - Joseph Nollekens, sculptor (born 1737)
11 September - David Ricardo, economist (born 1772)
23 September - Matthew Baillie, physician and pathologist (born 1761)
30 October - Edmund Cartwright, clergyman and inventor of the power loom (born 1743)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 252–253. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.