22 January –
Royal Navybrig-sloopHMS Primrose (1807) (bound for the Peninsular War) is wrecked in a snowstorm on
The Manacles reef off
The Lizard peninsula in
Cornwall with only a
drummer boy surviving and the transport Dispatch is wrecked on Black Head nearby with 104 homeward bound soldiers lost and only seven survivors.
12 May – Peninsular War:
Second Battle of Porto: the Anglo-Portuguese Army commanded by Wellesley crosses the
Douro, drives the French army commanded by Marshal Soult out of
Porto and forces them to retreat into Spain.[4]
18 September – A new
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden(pictured) opens in
London to replace the first burnt down in 1808. An increase in ticket prices causes the
Old Price Riots which last for 64 days.
9 December –
Walcheren Campaign: The last British forces withdraw from
Vlissingen. The unsuccessful campaign has cost the British 4,000 dead, wounded or captured (but only 106 through combat) and at least 12,000 sick.[9]
William Combe begins publication of the verse Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque in Ackermann's Political Magazine, illustrated by
Thomas Rowlandson.
22 January –
Royal Navybrig-sloopHMS Primrose (1807) (bound for the Peninsular War) is wrecked in a snowstorm on
The Manacles reef off
The Lizard peninsula in
Cornwall with only a
drummer boy surviving and the transport Dispatch is wrecked on Black Head nearby with 104 homeward bound soldiers lost and only seven survivors.
12 May – Peninsular War:
Second Battle of Porto: the Anglo-Portuguese Army commanded by Wellesley crosses the
Douro, drives the French army commanded by Marshal Soult out of
Porto and forces them to retreat into Spain.[4]
18 September – A new
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden(pictured) opens in
London to replace the first burnt down in 1808. An increase in ticket prices causes the
Old Price Riots which last for 64 days.
9 December –
Walcheren Campaign: The last British forces withdraw from
Vlissingen. The unsuccessful campaign has cost the British 4,000 dead, wounded or captured (but only 106 through combat) and at least 12,000 sick.[9]
William Combe begins publication of the verse Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque in Ackermann's Political Magazine, illustrated by
Thomas Rowlandson.