Events
- 1 January - Sierra Leone becomes a British Crown Colony.
- 18 February - First recorded rescue using the Manby Mortar when the crew of the Plymouth brig Elizabeth stranded off Great Yarmouth are hauled safely to shore under the direction of Captain Manby.
- 2 May - End of Anglo-Spanish War and beginning of Peninsular War as Spain allies with the United Kingdom and Portugal against France.
- 20 July - Henry Crabb Robinson makes the first despatch from a specialist war reporter, to The Times newspaper.
- 1 August - Peninsular War: British expeditionary force lands near Oporto.
- 21 August - Peninsular War: British-Portuguese victory over the French at the Battle of Vimeiro.
- 21 October - Nelson's Pillar in Dublin is completed.
- 20 December - The original Covent Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.
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“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
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