1800
40% of Britain's population earn their living from the land.
1801
Henry Addington, a Tory, becomes Prime Minister.
1801
The first British Census records populations of 8,893,000 in England and Wales, and 1,608,000 in Scotland.
1801
London's population rises to 1.1 million.
1802
John Constable paints 'Dedham Vale'.
1802
William Cobbett publishes 'Cobbett's Political Register'.
1803 - 1815
The Napoleonic Wars.
1804
William Pitt 'the Younger', a Tory, once again becomes Prime Minister.
1804
William Cobbett publishes 'Parliamentary Debates'.
1805
John Flaxman, the leading neoclassical artist of Britain, produces his 'Odyssey of Homer'.
1805
William Wordsworth completes the first version of 'The Prelude'.
1805
The British, led by Admiral Lord Nelson, destroy French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar.
1806
Lord Grenville, a Whig, becomes Prime Minister.
1806
George Stubbs paints 'Whistlejacket'.
1806
William Blake paints 'Newton'.
1807
The Duke of Portland, a Whig, becomes Prime Minister.
1807
The British Parliament prohibits the slave trade.
1808
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is premiered in Vienna.
1809
Spencer Perceval, a Tory, becomes Prime Minister.
1809
The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn dies.
1809
The German composer Felix Mendelssohn is born.
1811
The Regency Act is passed, allowing George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), to act as Regent during the incapacity of George III.
1811
Luddite rebellions begin in Nottingham.
1811
Mary Anning, aged 11, discovers the complete fossilised skeleton of an ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile.
1812
The Baptist Union of Great Britain is formed.
1812
The Earl of Liverpool, a Tory, becomes Prime Minister.
1812
G. W. F. Hegel writes 'The Science of Logic'.
1812
J. M. W. Turner paints 'Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps'.
1813
Jane Austen publishes 'Pride and Prejudice'.
1814
Sir Walter Scott publishes 'Waverley, Or, Tis Sixty Years Since'.
1815
Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
1815
The Corn Laws are passed to prevent cheap foreign imports.
1817
John Keats writes 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'.
1817
James Hogg publishes 'Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine'.
1818
Mary Shelley writes 'Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus'.
1819
William Hazlitt publishes his 'Political Essays'.
1819
Between 11 and 15 people are killed and over 400 injured in the Peterloo Massacre, when cavalry charge on political protesters in Manchester.
1819
Lord Byron writes 'Don Juan'.
1819
William Blake paints 'The Ghost of a Flea'.
1820
John Clare publishes 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery'.
1820
George IV is crowned King of Great Britain.