Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, at Woolwich Dockyard. 5 June – Caroline of Brunswick, the new King's estranged wife, returns to England after six years abroad in Italy, where she has been carrying on an affair; since ascending the throne, the King has sought to receive his government's approval for a divorce. 10 June – Sir Thomas Munro is appointed as the British colonial Governor of the Madras Presidency, which encompasses most of southern India. 5 July – Pains and Penalties Bill put before Parliament to deprive Caroline of Brunswick, George IV's estranged wife, of the title of Queen Consort, leading to her de facto public trial before the House of Lords opening on 17 August. Although narrowly passed on 10 November in the House of Lords, the bill is withdrawn in the knowledge that it would almost certainly not pass the House of Commons. 26 July – opening of Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland, designed by Captain Samuel Brown. Its span of 449 ft (137 metres) is the longest in the Western world at this time, and it is the first wrought iron vehicular suspension bridge of its type in Britain. 1 August — completion and opening of the Regent's Canal through to the London Docks. 30 August – Radical War: Radical leader James Wilson, a Strathaven weaver, is executed for treason on Glasgow Green for his part in the rising. 8 September – Radical War: Radical leaders John Baird and Andrew Hardie are executed at Stirling for their part in the rising at Bonnybridge. Publications Friedrich Accum's exposé A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. Hone and Cruickshank's satirical work The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder. John Keats' collection Lamia and Other Poems. Sir Walter Scott's anonymous novels The Abbot and The Monastery. Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound. The 6th Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Publication of the last of William Blake's prophetic books, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, is completed. Births 17 January – Anne Brontë, novelist and poet (died 1849) 13 February – James Geiss, businessman (died 1878) 28 February – John Tenniel, illustrator (died 1914) 17 March – Jean Ingelow, poet and novelist (died 1897) 22 March – John Brown, cricketer (died 1893) 30 March – Anna Sewell, novelist (died 1878) 4 April – David Kirkaldy, engineer, pioneer of materials testing (died 1897) 8 April