1853 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 1853 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1853 English cricket season Events from the year 1853 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (Coalition) Events 20 January – The United Kingdom annexes Lower Burma ending the Second Anglo-Burmese War. 4 February – Halifax Permanent Benefit Building Society takes its first deposits.Maurice Baren How It All Began Up the High Street London Michael O'Mara Books 1996 1-85479-667-4 58 14 February – United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Traffic in all Intoxicating Liquors formed in Manchester. 15 February – PS Queen Victoria sinks in a snowstorm at night entering Dublin Bay with the loss of more than 80 lives. 18 February – A treaty is signed with the United States concerning international copyright.The Pocket Date Book https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog Chapman and Hall William L. R. Cates William Leist Readwin Cates 1863 29 March – Manchester is granted city status by letters patent.The London Gazette (1 April 1853) 21426:950.The City of Manchester https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/10/guardian190-manchester-becomes-city The Guardian Manchester 1853-04-02 2016-11-14 May – The world's first public aquarium is opened in London Zoo.Brunner Bernd The Ocean at Home Princeton Architectural Press 2003 New York 1-56898-502-9 99 registration https://archive.org/details/oceanathomeil00brun/page/99 5 May – Perpetual Maritime Truce comes into force between the United Kingdom and the rulers of the Sheikhdoms of the Lower Gulf, later known as the Trucial States.Lorimer John Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf British Government Bombay 1915 6 June – Naval fleet travels to Besika Bay to fend off Russian threats to the Ottoman Empire.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 273–274 0-7126-5616-2 25 June – Hochster v De La Tour, a landmark case on anticipatory breach of contract in English contract law, is decided in the Court of Queen's Bench. 1 July – First constitution of the Cape Colony provides for a legislative council. 1 August – Under terms of the Vaccination Act 1853, all children born after this date are to receive compulsory vaccination against smallpox during their first 3 months of life, with defaulting parents subject to a fine.United Kingdom Vaccination Act 1853 https://navigator.health.org.uk/theme/united-kingdom-vaccination-act-1853 Policy Navigator The Health Foundation 2020-11-18 12 August – Licensing (Scotland) Act (known after its sponsor as the 'Forbes Mackenzie Act') regulates the supply of intoxicating beverages in Scotland.H. C. G. Matthew Mackenzie, William Forbes (1807–1862) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17605 2011-06-27 10.1093/ref:odnb/17605 20 August Penal Servitude Act provides for convicted criminals to serve their entire sentence in prison, rather than suffer transportation, and also to be freed on licence.http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/timeline.html Timeline of capital punishment in Britain 2011-02-02 Betting Act (An Act for the Suppression of Betting Houses) prohibits betting shops, restricting legal betting on horse racing to racecourses. September (approx.) – First pillar box on the British mainland erected in Carlisle.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860 2007-09-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 2007-08-17 deadJean Young Farrugia The Letter Box: a history of Post Office pillar and wall boxes Fontwell Centaur Press 1969 0-900000-14-7 14 September – West Australian becomes the first horse to win the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger. 28 September – Emigrant ship Annie Jane sinks in heavy seas off the Scottish island of Vatersay with the loss of 350 lives.Annie Jane http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?62404 Wreck site 2014-04-14 31 October–15 May 1854 – Lockout of Preston cotton mill workers seeking reinstatement of ten percent of their pay, this will be Britain's longest industrial dispute up to this date.J. S. Leigh Preston Cotton Martyrs: the millworkers who shocked a nation Lancaster Carnegie 2008 978-1-874181-45-3 3 December – Crimean War: a protocol is signed with France, Austria, and Prussia for restoring peace between Russia and Turkey. 14 December – Palmerston resigns as Home Secretary over demands for parliamentary reform, but changes his mind on 23 December. 15 December – The Sierra redwood Sequoiadendron giganteum is introduced to England as Wellingtonia by William Lobb.http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/earle/cu/se2/ Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) Buchholz 1939 Earle, Christopher J. Gymnosperm Database University of Hamburg 1999-08-15 2014-07-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20081005112526/http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/earle/cu/se2/ 5 October 2008 dead Undated Highland Clearances in Skye and Raasay.The Skye and Raasay Clearances – 1853 http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/land_and_votes/skye_clearances/ Scotland's History BBC 2010-10-10 J. S. Fry & Sons of Bristol produce their Cream Stick, predecessor of Fry's Chocolate Cream and the first mass produced chocolate bar. Publications Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette (published as by Currer Bell). Mrs Gaskell's novel Ruth. John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore's adaptations Carols for Christmas-Tide, including the first appearance of "Good King Wenceslas".https://books.google.com/books?id=rhL8kHK48ycC&pg=PA19 Christmas Carols: Complete Verses Shane Weller 19 1992 Courier Corporation 2015-11-18 9780486273976http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/good_king_wenceslas.htm Good King Wenceslas Hymns and Carols of Christmas 2006-09-30 2015-11-18 Robert Smith Surtees' comic novel Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. Charlotte M. Yonge's novel The Heir of Redclyffe.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965 Births 15 January – Rutland Barrington, baritone in musical comedy (died 1922) 16 January Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor (died 1937) Ian Hamilton, general (died 1947) 29 March – Elihu Thomson, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1937) 7 April – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, member of the royal family (died 1884) 3 June – Flinders Petrie, Egyptologist (died 1942) 4 July – George Edward Bond, Medway architect and surveyor (died 1914) 5 July – Cecil Rhodes, businessman (died 1902) Deaths 27 January – John Iltyd Nicholl, Welsh politician (born 1797) 12 April – James Foster, ironmaster (born 1786) 15 August – Frederick William Robertson, Anglican preacher (born 1816) 19 August – Sir George Cockburn, Naval commander (born 1772) 29 August – Sir Charles James Napier, general and Commander-in-Chief in India (born 1782) 6 September – George Bradshaw, cartographer and timetable publisher (born 1800) References 1853 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1853 by country Category:1853 in Europe Category:1850s in the United Kingdom