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| 1805 |
| | | Lord Castlereagh becomes secretary of state for war in William Pitt's government | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade | |
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| 1807 |
| | | To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English chemist Humphry Davy uses electrolysis to isolate the elements sodium and potassium | |
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| 1807 |
| | | A Scottish clergyman, Alexander Forsyth, invents the percussion cap to help in his pursuit of wildfowl | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Anglo-US tensions are heightened by a clash between the frigates Leopard and Chesapeake off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia | |
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| 1807 |
| | | George Canning is appointed British foreign secretary in the new administration of the Duke of Portland | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration | |
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