1841 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch – Victoria
  • Prime Minister – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig) (until 30 August); Robert Peel (Conservative) (starting 30 August)
  • Parliament – (until 23 June), (starting 19 August)

Events[]

  • 4 January – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company SS Thames is wrecked on the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 61 of the 65 onboard;[1] at least 20 other ships run aground round the British Isles today.
  • 20 January – Convention of Chuenpi agreed between Charles Elliot and Qishan of the Qing dynasty.
  • 26 January – the United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong.
  • 27 January – the active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered and named by James Clark Ross.[2]
  • 28 January – Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • February – H. Fox Talbot obtains a patent for the calotype process in photography.[3]
  • 10 February – Penny Red postage stamp replaces the Penny Black.[4]
  • 20 February – the Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
  • 1 March – opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the first to cross the Pennines.[5]
  • 4 March – first performance of Dion Boucicault's comedy London Assurance, presented by Charles Mathews at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
  • by April – Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew first opens to the public[6] and William Hooker appointed director.
  • 3 May
    • New Zealand becomes a British colony.[7]
    • London Library opens in Pall Mall.[6]
  • 6 June (Sunday)
    • United Kingdom Census held, the first to record names and approximate ages of every household member and to be administered nationally.
    • becomes the first woman to take religious vows in communion with the Anglican Province of Canterbury since the Reformation, making them privately to E. B. Pusey in Oxford.[8]
  • 7 June – Lord Melbourne loses a vote of no confidence against his government.
  • 21 June – St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, dedicated as a Roman Catholic church.[9]
  • 29 June – 22 July – general election – Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives take control of the House of Commons.
  • 30 June – Great Western Railway completed throughout between London and Bristol.[10]
  • 5 July – Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough.[7][11]
  • 17 July – first edition of the humorous magazine Punch published.[12]
  • 26 July – the proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.[13]
  • 28 August – Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel.[6]
  • 2 September – reconsecration of Leeds Parish Church after reconstruction.[14]
  • 21 September – the London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout.[15]
  • 24 September – United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
  • 10 October – First Opium War: Battle of Chinhai – British capture a Chinese garrison.
  • 13 October – First Opium War: British occupy Ningbo.
  • 27 October – Anglican clergyman Richard Sibthorp becomes the first Tractarian to be received into the Roman Catholic Church, by Nicholas Wiseman at St Mary's College, Oscott (he reconverts two years later).
  • 30 October – a fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.[16]
  • 13 November – surgeon James Braid attends his first demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
  • 23 December – First Anglo-Afghan War: at a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters.

Undated[]

  • Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross additionally discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror.
  • Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham.
  • Ulster Canal completed.[17]

Ongoing events[]

  • First Opium War (1839–1842)
  • First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)

Publications[]

Births[]

  • 25 January – Jackie Fisher, admiral (died 1920)
  • 28 January – Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (died 1904)
  • 9 November – Edward VII (died 1910)
  • William George Aston, consular official (died 1911)

Deaths[]

  • 2 February – Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (born 1774)
  • 12 February – Astley Cooper, surgeon and anatomist (born 1768)
  • 17 February – Joseph Chitty, lawyer and legal writer (born 1775)
  • 22 April – Edward Draper, army officer and colonial administrator (born 1776)
  • 20 May – Joseph Blanco White, theologian (born 1775)
  • 1 June – Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter (born 1785)
  • 3 July – Rosemond Mountain, actress and singer (born 1780s?)
  • 24 August – Theodore Hook, author (born 1788)
  • 1 December – George Birkbeck, doctor, academic and philanthropist (born 1776)
  • 23 December – Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (born 1793)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Larn, Richard; Bridget. Wreck & Rescue round the Cornish coast. Redruth: Tor Mark Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-85025-406-8.
  2. ^ Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, 1, pp. 216–8.
  3. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  4. ^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 10.
  5. ^ Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4352-1.
  6. ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 264–266. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  7. ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  8. ^ Bonham, Valerie (2004). "Hughes, Marian Rebecca (1817–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  9. ^ Stanton, Phoebe. Pugin. pp. 557–66.
  10. ^ Body, Geoffrey (1985). Western Handbook – a digest of GWR and WR data. Weston-super-Mare: British Rail (Western). ISBN 0-905466-70-5.
  11. ^ Derby Railway History Research Group (1989). The Midland Counties Railway. Gwernymynydd: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-11-3.
  12. ^ Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895). The History of "Punch". p. 27.
  13. ^ Thorpe, Trefor. "Between a rock and a wet place". Cadw. Archived from the original on 2 March 2005. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  14. ^ "History". Leeds Parish Church. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  15. ^ Turner, J. T. Howard (1977). The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: 1, Origins and Formation. London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0275-X.
  16. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
  17. ^ Delany, Ruth (1986). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
  18. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
  19. ^ "The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991". Cambridge University Press.
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