1841 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig (until 30 August), Robert Peel, Conservative
[edit] Events
- 25 January - Charles Elliot and Qishan of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh. A navy official Edward Belcher led a fleet to land Hong Kong.[vague]
- 26 January - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong.
- 27 January - Discovery of Mount Erebus in Antarctica by James Clark Ross.
- 28 January - James Clark Ross discovers the Ross Ice Shelf.
- February - William Fox Talbot obtains a patent for the calotype process in photography.[1]
- 3 May - New Zealand becomes a British colony.[2]
- 5 July - Thomas Cook arranges the first railway excursion.[2]
- 17 July - First edition of Punch Magazine published.[3]
- 28 August - Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel.[4]
- 24 September - United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
- 30 October - a fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.[5]
- 12 November - First publication of The Jewish Chronicle, the first Jewish newspaper in the UK.[2]
- 13 November - Physician James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
- 23 December - First Anglo-Afghan War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is torn to pieces.
[edit] Undated
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew first opens to the public.[4]
- Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham.
- Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror.
- London Library founded in Pall Mall.[4]
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Publications
- Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty.
[edit] Births
- 25 January - Jackie Fisher, admiral (died 1920)
- 28 January - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (died 1904)
- 9 November - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)
- William George Aston, consular official (died 1911)
[edit] Deaths
- 2 February - Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (born 1774)
- 12 February - Astley Cooper, surgeon and anatomist (born 1768)
- 20 May - Joseph Blanco White, theologian (born 1775)
- 1 June - David Wilkie, artist (born 1785)
- 24 August - Theodore Edward Hook, author (born 1788)
- 1 December - George Birkbeck, doctor, academic and philanthropist (born 1776)
- 23 December - William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (born 1793)
[edit] References
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ Marion Harry Spielmann (1895). The History of "Punch", 27.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 264-266. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
