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Events from the year 1824 in the United Kingdom.

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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).
4 March - Sir William Hillary founds the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, now known as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.^[1]
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.^[2]
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.

^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ NG London/Establishment of the National Gallery
^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 252–253. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.