College, Cambridge, granted a Royal Charter, the first new college there for two centuries. December – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz introduces a Christmas tree at a party for children at Windsor. Ongoing Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808 French Revolutionary Wars, War of the Second Coalition Undated Inflation reaches an all-time recorded high of 36.5%. Infrared radiation is discovered by William Herschel. Births 1 January – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died 1857) 4 January – Charles Baillie-Hamilton, politician (died 1865) 6 January – George Thomas Doo, engraver (died 1886) 12 January – George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, diplomat and statesman (died 1870) 24 January – Edwin Chadwick, social reformer (died 1890) 27 January – Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, statesman (died 1875) 1 February – Brian Houghton Hodgson, naturalist and civil servant (died 1894) 11 February – Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer (died 1877) 12 February – John Edward Gray, zoologist (died 1875) 23 February – William Jardine, naturalist (died 1874) 4 March – William Price, physician and eccentric (died 1893) 10 March Horatio Thomas Austin, Royal Navy officer and explorer (died 1865) George Hudson, railway financier (died 1871) 15 April – James Clark Ross, Royal Navy officer and explorer (died 1862) 16 April George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, soldier (died 1888) William Chambers of Glenormiston, publisher and politician (died 1883) 4 May – John McLeod Campbell, churchman (died 1872) 8 May – William Lovett, Chartist leader (died 1877) 9 May – Samuel Carter Hall, journalist (died 1889) 28 May – Edward Baines, newspaper editor and Member of Parliament (died 1890) 1 June – Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (died 1869) 9 June – James Wilson Carmichael, marine painter (died 1868) 30 June – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor (died 1873) 22 July – Robert McCormick, Royal Navy surgeon and explorer (died 1890) 29 July – George Bradshaw, cartographer and timetable publisher (died 1853) 22 August – Edward Bouverie Pusey, churchman (died 1882) 10 September – Edwin Guest, antiquary (died 1880) 12 September – John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died 1879) 22 September George Bentham, botanist (died 1884) Thomas Holloway, pharmacist and philanthropist (died 1883) 30 September – Decimus Burton, architect and garden designer (died 1881) 11 October – William Calcraft, hangman (died 1879) 18 October – Henry Taylor, dramatist (died 1886) 25 October – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, poet (died 1859) 4 November