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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