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.[10]
^Ward, Alan J. (1994). The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland 1782–1992. Blackrock: Irish Academic Press. p. 28. ISBN0716525194.
^Moran, Richard (1985). "The origin of insanity as a special verdict: the trial for treason of James Hadfield (1800)". Law & Society Review. Blackwell Publishing. 19 (3): 487–519. doi:10.2307/3053574. JSTOR3053574. PMID11617589.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN0-14-102715-0.