18 August - Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais.
Halliwell's wicket-keeping was judged by his English peers as being among the best in the world, and he was compared in equal terms with Jack Blackham and Gregor MacGregor, the Australian and English Test wicket-keepers of the time.
In August 1815, the Spanish troops of General Pablo Morillo attacked the city and began a siege that lasted until December, when disease and starvation forced the city to surrender.
Throughout his career Philipson was competing for the wicket-keeper's spot in the English Test side with Gregor MacGregor, which resulted in him playing in only five Test matches for England, which he did on the 1891/2 and 1894/5 tours of Australia.
Gregor Schlierenzauer | Jimmie Macgregor | Gregor Piatigorsky | Gregor Mendel | Neil MacGregor | Gregor Schneider | Jozsef Gregor | Gregor Wentzel | Gregor Gysi | James MacGregor Burns | Rob Roy MacGregor | Nora Gregor | Katherine MacGregor | Gregor Ziemer | Gregor MacGregor | Gregor Benko | Lucy MacGregor | John MacGregor | Gregor Žerjav | Gregor Kiczales | Gregor Gall | Gregor Edmunds | Gregor Collins | Francis Gregor (MP) | Francis Gregor | Clan Gregor | A. James Gregor | William MacGregor | Trevor MacGregor | Stu MacGregor |
One of the most famous was the grant of a huge tract he made to Gregor McGregor in 1820, an area called Poyais, which encompassed lands once granted by George I to some Englishmen.