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| 1800 |
| | | Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom | |
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| 1801 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours | |
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| 1802 |
| | | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe | |
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| 1802 |
| | | English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835 | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back | |
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