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1819 In England
Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents * Monarch – George III * Regent – George, Prince Regent * Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory) * Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh * Home Secretary – Lord Sidmouth * Secretary of War – Lord Bathurst Events * 6 February – Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore. * 19 February – William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic. * 20 March – Burlington Arcade opens in London. * 13 April – The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a wagonway, opens for coal traffic. * 14 April – The streets of Birmingham are lit by gas for the first time by the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company. * 21 April–late May – John Keats writes "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and most of his major odes. * 20 June – The , the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary Of State For War And The Colonies
The Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was a British cabinet-level position responsible for the army and the British colonies (other than India). The Secretary was supported by an Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. History The Department was created in 1801. In 1854 it was split into the separate offices of Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for the Colonies The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the Cabinet of the United Kingdom's government minister, minister in charge of managing certain parts of the British Empire. The colonial secretary never had responsibility for t .... List of secretaries of state (1801–1854) ;Notes: UK History of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office References {{DEFAULTSORT:Secretary Of State For War And The Colonies War and the Colonies 1801 establishments in the United Kingdom 1854 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct ministerial offices in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' of 1888 described his "Ode to a Nightingale" as "one of the final masterpieces". Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature – in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", " Ode on a Grecian Urn", " Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Gas Light And Coke Company
The Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company operated in Birmingham from 1819 to 1875. History John Gosling of London responded to a tender of 1816 from the Birmingham Street Commissioners for the provision of gas street lighting. Gosling built his first works on Gas Street in 1817-18, with plant installed by Samuel Clegg. The streets of Birmingham were lit by gas for the first time on 14 April 1819. The Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company, formed by an Act of Parliament, obtained the business of Gosling in 1819. The Gas Retort House was constructed in 1822 where town gas was manufactured by heating coal in the absence of air. This operated until 1850. The Windsor Street Gasworks was established in 1846 and remained in service after the company's takeover by the Birmingham Corporation Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
