15 May – George III survives two assassination attempts in London: In Hyde Park, a bullet intended for him hits a man standing alongside; and later at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, two bullets fired by an insane man (James Hadfield) hit the wooden panel behind him.[5]
28 July – two acts of Parliament are passed in response to James Hadfield's assassination attempt on the King: the Criminal Lunatics Act requires and provides a procedure for the indefinite detention of mentally ill offenders; and the Treason Act aligns procedures for the trial of anyone attempting to take the monarch's life with those for murder in general.[11]
26 December – Mary Robinson, poet, actress and royal mistress (born 1756)
27 December – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718)
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Further readingedit
New Annual Register...for 1800, London: G. and J. Robinson, 1801