Member of Parliament
1st enters Parliament, as a Whig
Permanent historical records · Updated 2026-11-03
1822 in Great Britain
Explore 22 historical events and records for Great Britain in 1822.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1822
Sorted by month and day. Records with no month are shown last. Showing 22 of 22 unique records.
22Unique records
1 of 1Page
22Named events on this page
14Named people on this page
5Places on this page
July
August
Death of Stewart
Death of Robert Stewart, commits suicide
Suicide
Death of Robert Stewart, commits suicide
Death of Frederick William Herschel
Death of Frederick William Herschel, died in his 84th year, which is the same number of years Uranus takes to orbit the Sun
Herschel Museum of Astronomy
Herschels house at 19 New King Street in Bath, Somerset where he made many telescopes and first observed Uranus, is now home to the Herschel Museum of Astronomy
Return to England
Brunel completes his education in France and returns to England to begin his engineering career.
September
Foreign Secretary of Great Britain
Appointed Foreign Minister, 2nd term
October
The Lancet
1st publication of The Lancet
Other events (month unknown)
Apprenticeship
Brunel studies precision engineering and horology under the celebrated clockmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet.
Birth of Robert William Thomson
Birth of Robert William Thomson
Breguet Workshop
Brunel gains precision engineering experience in Abraham-Louis Breguet's workshop.
Burial
Buried in Westminster Abbey
Discovery of Chlorine
Liquefies chlorine, used in bleaches
Education
Brunel continues his mathematical education at the Lycee Henri-IV in Paris.
Engineering Education
Brunel is ruled ineligible for admission to the Ecole Polytechnique because he is a foreign national.
Grain Import Rules Revised
Legislation in 1822 amended the rules governing imported corn, although the altered scheme was not immediately operative.
Home Secretary of Great Britain
Appointed Home Secretary
Invention of Electromagnet
Invents the 1st electromagnet
Leader of House of Commons
Appointed Leader of the House of Commons
Periodical Criticism Crosses Borders
The Edinburgh Review's essays circulated to readers outside Scotland and helped establish the review as an international literary forum.
Revisits Gates of Paradise
Blake revised and extended his emblematic work The Gates of Paradise for a later audience.
Rural Reform Advocacy Continues
Cobbett employed his weekly journalism to criticise unequal political influence and burdens placed on ordinary households.
How these records were prepared
Generated from the World History Database historical_events table. Identical display records are collapsed; descriptions otherwise retain the stored text. Coverage and source quality vary. Check primary and specialist sources before citing individual historical claims.