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United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1807
Events from the year
1807 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
James Gillray 's
British Tars Towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour .
1 January – The island of
Curaçao is captured by Admiral
Charles Brisbane .
[1]
7 January – The United Kingdom issues an
Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.
[2]
28 January –
Pall Mall, London becomes the first street with
gas lighting
[3] in a demonstration by
Frederick Albert Winsor .
3 February –
Napoleonic Wars and
Anglo-Spanish War –
Battle of Montevideo : the
British Army captures
Montevideo from the
Spanish Empire as part of the
British invasions of the River Plate .
18 February – The
Royal Navy
gun-brig Snipe runs aground 60 yards (55 m) off
Great Yarmouth in a storm, with around 200 people drowned, inspiring
Captain Manby to invent the
Manby Mortar .
[4]
23 February
25 March
31 March –
Duke of Portland asked to form a government following the collapse of the
Ministry of all the Talents .
18 April –
Harwich ferry disaster : 60 to 90 soldiers and their families drown when a boat capsizes off
Landguard Fort .
4 May–9 June – The Duke of Portland wins the
general election .
31 May –
Primitive Methodism originates in an All Day of Prayer at
Mow Cop in
North Staffordshire .
[8]
June – First
Ascot Gold Cup held.
[9]
22 June –
Chesapeake –Leopard affair :
Royal Navy
warship
HMS Leopard attacks and boards the
United States Navy
frigate
USS Chesapeake off
Norfolk, Virginia , seeking
deserters .
5 July – Disastrous attack on
Buenos Aires .
7–9 July –
Peace of Tilsit between France,
Prussia and
Russia .
Napoleon and
Emperor
Alexander I of Russia ally together against the British.
13 July – With the death at
Frascati of Cardinal
Henry Benedict Stuart , the last
Stuart claimant to the throne, the movement of
Jacobitism comes to an effective end.
27 July –
Kitty's Amelia sails from Liverpool on the last legal slaving voyage for a British vessel.
[7]
2–7 September –
Battle of Copenhagen : The
Royal Navy bombards
Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent the
Dano-Norwegian navy from surrendering to
Napoleon . One third of the city is destroyed and two thousand citizens killed.
2 September –
Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812) :
Russia declares war on the United Kingdom.
13 November –
Geological Society founded in
London .
20 November –
sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales : The British
troopships Rochdale (
brig ) and Prince of Wales (
packet ship ) sink in a storm in
Dublin Bay with around 400 drowned.
[10]
5–11 December – Napoleonic Wars:
Raid on Griessie – A British Royal Navy squadron attacks the Dutch port of
Griessie on
Java in the
Dutch East Indies , eliminating the last Dutch naval force in the Pacific and concluding the
Java campaign of 1806–1807 .
[11]
22 December – The
U.S. Congress passes the
Embargo Act in response to the
Orders in Council .
29 December – The Royal Navy
ship of the line
HMS Anson runs aground on
Loe Bar ,
Cornwall , with around sixty people drowned, inspiring
Henry Trengrouse to invent a rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks.
[12]
Undated –
Potassium and
sodium isolated by Sir
Humphry Davy .
Ongoing
Publications
Births
Deaths
References
^ Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology . D. Appleton & Co.
^ Dudley, William S., ed. (1985). The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History . Naval Historical Center. p. 34.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Walthew, Kenneth (1971). From Rock and Tempest – The Life of Captain George William Manby . London: Bles.
ISBN
0-7138-0287-1 .
^ "Dreadful Catastrophe".
The Times . No. 6980. London. 24 February 1807. p. 3.
^
"William Wilberforce (1759–1833)" . Retrieved 18 January 2021 .
^
a
b
"Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807" .
BBC . Archived from
the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007 .
^ Farndale, W. E. (1950). The Secret of Mow Cop: a new appraisal of the origins of Primitive Methodism . London: Epworth Press.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 242–243.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"Historical Coastal Walking Tour" (PDF) .
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012 .
^
Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]. The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900 . Vol. V. Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
1-86176-014-0 .
^ Gilly, W. (1864). Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy . p. 125.
^
"Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820" . Archived from
the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007 .