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29 December – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York. 31 December. The foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is sent to Germany with full powers to give assistance to the allies. Westminster Bridge in London is illuminated by gas lighting provided by the Gas Light and Coke Company from the world's first public gasworks nearby.
United Kingdom - 18th-century Britain, 1714–1815: When Georg Ludwig, elector of Hanover, became king of Great Britain on August 1, 1714, the country was in some respects bitterly divided. Fundamentally, however, it was prosperous, cohesive, and already a leading European and imperial power. Abroad, Britain’s involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession had been brought to a ...
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Jul 31, 2019 · Act of Union creates the United Kingdom. Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Ireland were formally joined under the Act of Union to create the United Kingdom in 1801. The Irish ...
Feb 17, 2011 · More famous yet was Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-1797), a former slave who went on to become a radical reformer and best-selling author. In 1773 he became the first black person to explore the Arctic ...
May 9, 2021 · The series is set in 1813, 20 years before slavery was fully abolished in Britain, and while the frocks, palaces and parties of Regency London all make for sumptuous viewing, a key source of all ...
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1813. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).
The general election of 1784 supplied Pitt with a parliamentary majority. United Kingdom - Industrialization, Reforms, Monarchy: From the Hanoverian succession to the mid-18th century the texture and quality of life in Britain changed considerably but by no means evenly. Change was far more pronounced in the towns than in the countryside and ...
