1848 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1848 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 24 February - Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe abdicates and escapes to England.
- 10 April - Chartist rally held in Kennington Park London, headed by Feargus O'Connor. A petition demanding the franchise is presented to Parliament.
- 11 July - London Waterloo station opens.[1]
- July - Public Health Act 1848 establishes the Boards of Health.[2]
- 26 July - Matale Rebellion against British rule in Sri Lanka.
- 29 July - Uprising in County Tipperary, Ireland.[2]
- 16 September - William Lassell independently co-discovers Hyperion, one of the moons of Saturn.[3]
- October - First direct train route from London to Edinburgh opens.[2]
- 1 November - First W H Smith bookstall at a railway station opens, at Euston Station, in London.[2][1]
[edit] Undated
- Queen's College, London founded.
- John Bird Sumner becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
- British, Dutch and German governments lay claim to New Guinea.
[edit] Ongoing events
- Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)
[edit] Publications
- The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.[4]
- Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
- Charles Dickens' novel The Haunted Man.
- Elizabeth Gaskell publishes Mary Barton anonymously.
- Serialisation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis.
[edit] Births
- 27 February - Hubert Parry, composer (died 1918)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- 19 January - Isaac D'Israeli, author (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)
[edit] References
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 269-270. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Discovery of new satellite of Saturn, Lassell, W., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, p.195, 1848
- ^ Icons, a portrait of England 1840-1860. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
