1813 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1813 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – George III
 * Regent – George, Prince Regent
 * Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
 * Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
 * Home Secretary – Lord Sidmouth

Events

 * 16 January – 14 Luddites hanged at York.
 * 24 January – The Philharmonic Society of London is formed, holding its first concert on 8 March.
 * 1 June – War of 1812: Capture of USS Chesapeake in Boston Harbor by British Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon (1806).
 * 6 June – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – a British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
 * 21 June – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria – a British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78,000 with 96 guns under Wellington defeats a French force of 58,000 with 153 guns under Joseph Bonaparte to end the Peninsular War.
 * 1 July – Indian trade monopoly of the British East India Company abolished.
 * 5 July – War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
 * 21 July – Doctrine of the Trinity Act provides toleration for Unitarian worship.
 * September – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate.
 * 10 September – War of 1812: Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie.
 * 5 October – War of 1812: William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada; native leader Tecumseh is killed in battle.
 * 7 October – Peninsular War: British troops enter France.
 * 13 October – Cape of Good Hope becomes a British colony.
 * 21 October – Nelson Monument, Liverpool unveiled.
 * 25 December – William Debenham joins Thomas Clark in a partnership to manage a draper's store in London, origin of the Debenhams business which will run department stores until 2020.
 * 27 December–3 January 1814 – A thick fog blankets London causing the Prince Regent to turn back from a trip to Hatfield House and a mail coach to take 7 hours to reach Uxbridge on its way to Birmingham.
 * 29 December – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
 * 31 December
 * The foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is sent to Germany with full powers to give assistance to the allies.
 * Westminster Bridge in London is illuminated by gas lighting provided by the Gas Light and Coke Company from the world's first public gasworks nearby.

Ongoing

 * Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815
 * Peninsular War, 1808–1814

Undated

 * Last striking of guinea coins, to pay Wellington's army in the Pyrenees.
 * The early steam locomotive Puffing Billy introduced at Wylam colliery, County Durham.
 * Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne established.
 * Charles Waterton begins the process of turning his estate at Walton Hall, West Yorkshire, into what is, in effect, the world's first nature reserve.

Publications

 * 28 January – Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Queen Mab.
 * Robert Owen's A New View of Society: Essays on the Formation of Human Character.
 * Sarah Elizabeth Utterson's anthology Tales of the Dead.

Births

 * 4 January – Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand (died 1897)
 * 19 January – Henry Bessemer, metallurgist (died 1898)
 * 15 March – John Snow, physician, pioneer epidemiologist (died 1858)
 * 19 March – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary explorer (died 1873)
 * 17 April – Mary Peters, née Bowley, hymn writer (died 1856)
 * 21 May – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (died 1843)
 * 21 June – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scottish poet and academic (died 1865)
 * 17 September – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, photographer (died 1901)
 * 19 December – Thomas Andrews, chemist (died 1885)
 * 29 December – Alexander Parkes, chemist (died 1890)
 * Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and pioneer photographer (died 1857)

Deaths

 * 17 June – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, sailor and politician (born 1726)
 * 6 July – Granville Sharp, abolitionist (born 1735)
 * 11 August
 * John Price, Welsh librarian (born 1735)
 * Henry James Pye, poetaster, Poet Laureate (born 1745)
 * 23 August – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (born 1766)
 * 4 September – James Wyatt, architect (born 1746)
 * 10 November – Francis Fane of Spettisbury, MP (born 1752)
 * 17? November – William Franklin, last colonial governor of New Jersey (born 1730 in British North America)