1848 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1848 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Victoria
- Prime Minister – Lord John Russell (Liberal)
Events
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10 April: The first photograph of a crowd shows the Chartist Rally.
- 2 February – John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at 'Maryvale', Old Oscott.
- 15 February – The Caledonian Railway is opened throughout between Edinburgh, Carstairs and Carlisle, completing a through rail route from London by the West Coast Main Line and providing the first service of through carriages between Scotland and England.[1]
- 24 February – Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe abdicates and escapes to England.
- 10 April – A 'Monster' Chartist rally is held in Kennington Park, London, headed by Feargus O'Connor. A petition demanding the franchise is presented to Parliament.
- 18 April – Second Anglo-Sikh War breaks out in the Punjab.
- 22 April – Treason Felony Act passed, reducing certain categories of capital high treason to felony punishable by penal transportation.
- 30 May – The Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment and Loan Association is established at Hatton Garden in London to provide loans to professional and working people.[2]
- July – Great Famine (Ireland): Potato blight has returned and outbreaks of cholera are reported. Famine victims on outdoor relief peak this month at almost 840,000 people.[3]
- July – Public Health Act establishes Boards of Health across England and Wales.[4]
- 11 July – London Waterloo station opens.[5]
- 26 July – Matale Rebellion against British rule in Sri Lanka.
- 29 July – Young Irelander Rebellion at Ballingarry in County Tipperary is broken up by the Irish Constabulary.[4]
- 19 August – Moray Firth fishing disaster: 100 fishermen lose their lives in a severe storm off the east coast of Scotland.
- 24 August – The U.S. barque Ocean Monarch is burnt out off the Great Orme, North Wales, with the loss of 178, chiefly emigrants.[6]
- 16 September – William Lassell independently co-discovers Hyperion, one of the moons of Saturn.[7]
- 1 November – First W H Smith bookstall at a railway station opens, at Euston Station, in London.[4][5]
Undated
- Queen's College, London, founded, the world's first school to award academic qualifications to young women.
- New Anglican sisterhoods founded: Society of the Most Holy Trinity (the 'Devonport Sisters' or Ascot Priory) is established by Lydia Sellon to minister to the poor in the seafaring community of Devonport[8] and the Community of St Mary the Virgin is founded at Wantage.[9]
- Huddersfield workhouse scandal.
- British, Dutch and German governments lay claim to New Guinea.
- John Bird Sumner becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
Publications
- The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx (21 February).[10]
- William Harrison Ainsworth's novel The Lancashire Witches (serialised in The Sunday Times).
- Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander's Hymns for Little Children, including All Things Bright and Beautiful and Once in Royal David's City.
- Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton's epic fantasy poem King Arthur (1848–9).[11]
- Charles Dickens' novel The Haunted Man.
- Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton (anonymous).
- John Henry Newman's novel Loss and Gain: the story of a convert.
- William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis (serialised).
- Thomas Babington Macaulay's work The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, vol. 1–2.
- John Stuart Mill’s book Principles of Political Economy.
Births
- 27 February – Hubert Parry, composer (died 1918)
- 3 March – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
- 18 March – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (died 1939)
- 31 March – William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, financier and statesman (died 1919)
- 7 April – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1930)
- 18 July – W. G. Grace, cricketer (died 1915)
- 25 July
- George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian writer (died 1881)
- Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
- 2 December – Mary Slessor, missionary (died 1915)
Deaths
- 19 January – Isaac D'Israeli, author (born 1766)
- 11 February – William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury (born 1766)
- 3 August – Edward Baines, newspaperman and politician (born 1774)
- 12 August – George Stephenson, locomotive pioneer (born 1781)
- 23 November – Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, statesman (born 1764)
- 24 November – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1779)
- 19 December – Emily Brontë, author (born 1818)
References
- ↑ Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6 – Scotland: the Lowlands and Borders. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5408-6.
- ↑ "Timeline 1826–1901". Prudential plc. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ↑ Ross, David (2002). Ireland: History of a Nation (New ed.). New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. p. 313. ISBN 1842051644.
- 1 2 3 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 269–270. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- 1 2 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ "Burning of the Ocean Monarch". Liverpool Mercury. 25 August 1848. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ↑ Lassell, W. (1848). "Discovery of new satellite of Saturn". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 8: 195. Bibcode:1848MNRAS...8..195L. doi:10.1093/mnras/8.9.195a.
- ↑ Williams, Thomas J. (1950). Priscilla Lydia Sellon: the restorer, after three centuries, of the religious life in the English Church. London: SPCK.
- ↑ Mumm, Susan (1999). Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain. Leicester University Press. pp. 6–9. ISBN 0-7185-0151-9.
- ↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
- ↑ Drabble, Margaret, ed. (2000). The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 147. ISBN 0-19-866244-0.
See also
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