Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom. This is the year of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing
Publications
Births
- 27 January â Samuel Palmer, landscape watercolourist (died 1881)
- 4 February â W. Harrison Ainsworth, historical novelist (died 1882)
- 8 March â Rayner Stephens, Scottish-born radical reformer and Methodist minister (died 1879)
- 20 March â Thomas Cooper, Chartist, poet and religious lecturer (died 1892)
- 5 July
- Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, agriculturalist, nephew of Napoleon I (died 1870 in the United States)
- Robert FitzRoy, admiral and meteorologist (suicide 1865)
- 9 August â Joseph Locke, railway civil engineer (died 1860)
- 29 August â Frederick Denison Maurice, theologian (died 1872)
- 7 November â Thomas Brassey, railway contractor (died 1870)
- 20 December â Thomas Graham, Scottish-born chemist (died 1869)
- 22 December â John O. Westwood, entomologist (died 1893)
Deaths
- 2 January â Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733)
- 3 January â Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737)
- 30 January â John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
- 18 January â John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730)
- 2 February â Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
- 25 February
- William Buchan, doctor (born 1729)
- Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722)
- 7 May â William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)
- 25 May â William Paley, philosopher (born 1743)
- 3 August â Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724)
- 28 August â Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722)
- 5 October â Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738)
- 21 October â Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758)
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