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8 March – Second Battle of Abukir: a British Army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops. [1] 10 March – The first British census is carried out. The count is conducted by clergy, overseers of the poor and schoolmasters. The population of England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million, [4] with London revealed to have 860,035 ...
A portrait of Staunton's wife Jane and son George by John Hoppner, c. 1792. Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet (10 April 1737 – 14 January 1801) was an Anglo-Irish physician, judge and diplomat best known for his participation in the Macartney Embassy.
Engraving of the Qianlong Emperor, Volume One An Authentic Account (1797). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; Including Cursory Observations made, and Information obtained, in travelling through that Ancient Empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary (1797) is the official report on the British Macartney Embassy to Qing China that took ...
There was no representation of Great Britain or the United Kingdom in France from 1792 to 1801, due to the French Revolutionary Wars. 1801–1802: The Marquess Cornwallis, Plenipotentiary; 1802–1803: The Lord Whitworth [3] No representation from 1803 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic Wars
1789–1790: Embassy Secretary Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald (1765–1833), son of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, acted as Minister Plenipotentiary from 8 August 1789 to 20 June 1790 [2] 1790–1792: Earl Gower, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary [2] No representation after 1792, due to the French Revolutionary Wars ...
Born at Milford House near Salisbury, he was the son of Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737–1801), first baronet, diplomatist and Orientalist. [1] In 1792, at the age of 12, he accompanied his father, who had been appointed secretary to Lord Macartney 's mission to China , to the Far East (1792–1794).
The Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1801 was signed between the English diplomat John Malcolm and the Shah of Persia Fath Ali Shah in 1801. The Treaty was proposed at the initiative of Great Britain in order to reinforce the Western border of British India, following the threat of French invasion during the Campaign of Egypt.
William Pitt the Younger led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801.. In 1800, the Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland were accepted by their respective parliaments, creating the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK), which would be governed by the former Parliament of Great Britain (now the UK Parliament).