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	1805 in the United Kingdom
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	1805 English cricket season

Events from the year 1805 in the United Kingdom. This is the year of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Incumbents

20 January – London Docks open.^[1]
5 February – East Indiaman Earl of Abergavenny is wrecked in Weymouth Bay with the loss of 263 lives.^[2]
21 February – Charles Manners-Sutton confirmed as Archbishop of Canterbury.^[3]
18 April – Ordnance Survey begins systematic publication of its General Survey of England and Wales ("Old Series") maps to a scale of one inch to the mile (1:63,360) with those for Essex.^[4]
4 June – The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.^[1]
3 August – The annual cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School is played for the first time.^[1]
21 October
- Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar – British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.^[5]
- An underground explosion at Hebburn colliery on Tyneside kills 35.^[6]
23 October – Troopship Aeneas is wrecked off Newfoundland with the loss of 340 lives.^[2]
6 November – News of the victory at Trafalgar and Nelson's death reaches London.^[7]
26 November – The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened in Wales, the tallest and longest in Britain.^[8]

27 January – Samuel Palmer, landscape watercolourist (died 1881)
4 February – W. Harrison Ainsworth, historical novelist (died 1882)
8 March – Rayner Stephens, Scottish-born radical reformer and Methodist minister (died 1879)
20 March – 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 – Joseph Locke, railway civil engineer (died 1860)
29 August – Frederick Denison Maurice, theologian (died 1872)
7 November – Thomas Brassey, railway contractor (died 1870)
20 December – Thomas Graham, Scottish-born chemist (died 1869)
22 December – John O. Westwood, entomologist (died 1893)

2 January – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor (born 1733)
3 January – Charles Towneley, antiquary (born 1737)
30 January – John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
18 January – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1730)
2 February – Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
25 February
- William Buchan, doctor (born 1729)
- Thomas Pownall, colonial statesman (born 1722)
7 May – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (born 1737)^[10]
25 May – William Paley, philosopher (born 1743)
3 August – Christopher Anstey, writer (born 1724)
28 August – Alexander Carlyle, church leader (born 1722)
5 October – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general (born 1738)
21 October – Horatio Nelson, admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1758)