English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden

English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence

French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain

English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work

English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five

English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides

English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays

During his coronation George IV has the doors of Westminster Abbey closed against his queen, Caroline

Edmund Kean gives his snuff box to an admirer, as a souvenir of his Richard III

George IV wears a tartan kilt when visiting Edinburgh, and launches a new craze for Highland dress

Under Joseph Ellis the Star and Garter hotel expands still further to become the fashionable watering place for royalty and literary figures, including later in the century Dickens and Thackeray

Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle'

By an Act of Parliament George IV encloses the western end of Kew Green up to the present Ferry Lane and closes the road across the Green.

Daniel O'Connell organizes Catholic Associations throughout Ireland, funded by the members' penny subscriptions

After the death of Eva Garrick, David Garrick's widow, in 1822 the contents of Garrick's Villa are auctioned and the Roubiliac statue from the Temple goes to the British Museum

A Rugby schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, picks up the football and runs with it in rugby union's founding myth

George IV lays the foundation stone for a school on the north east side of Kew Green and gives £300 on condition that the school be called the King’s Free School. Later Queen Victoria permits the school to be called The Queen’s School.

The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800, outlawing trade unions in Britain, are repealed

The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber

The Cambridge Park estate is divided and Meadowbank is built in the southern part.

12-year-old Charles Dickens works in London in Warren's boot-blacking factory

Plans are made for a horse-drawn railroad into the East India Docks, but it is not built

Jonathan Peel, younger brother of Sir Robert Peel, buys Marble Hill. He lives here until his death in 1879 and his widow stays on until her death in 1887.

An act of 1825 authorises the building of a new Kingston Bridge, fifty yards upstream, which is designed by Edward Lapidge