1848 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 February 2012 1848 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1848 English cricket season Events from the year 1848 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Lord John Russell (Whig) Foreign Secretary – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Events thumb|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.Thomas John John Thomas (author) A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6 – Scotland: the Lowlands and Borders 1971 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-5408-6 17 February – John Bird Sumner is nominated archbishop of Canterbury. 24 February – Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe abdicates and escapes to England. 29 March – Queen's College, London, founded, the world's first school to award academic qualifications to young women. 8 April – Queen Victoria leaves London for the Isle of Wight under threat of civil unrest. 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. 21 April–23 November – Chopin visits London and Scotland, his last public appearance on a concert platform being on 16 November at the Guildhall, London.Chopin's visit to Britain, 1848 http://www.chopin-society.org.uk/articles/chopin-britain.htm Rose Cholmondeley 1998 The Chopin Society UK 2017-08-20 7 May 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110507083938/http://www.chopin-society.org.uk/articles/chopin-britain.htm dead 22 April – Treason Felony Act passed, reducing certain categories of capital high treason to felony punishable by penal transportation. May – Huddersfield workhouse scandal: an inquiry reveals the poor conditions in which inmates have been kept. 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.http://www.prudential.co.uk/prudential-plc/aboutpru/ourhistory/timeline/1826_1901/1826/ Timeline 1826–1901 30 August 2010 Prudential plc https://web.archive.org/web/20100813232819/http://www.prudential.co.uk/prudential-plc/aboutpru/ourhistory/timeline/1826_1901/1826/ 13 August 2010 dead 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.David Ross 2002 Ireland: History of a Nation New New Lanark Geddes & Grosset 1842051644 313 registration https://archive.org/details/irelandhistoryof0000ross/page/313 4 July – St George's Cathedral, Southwark, is opened as a Roman Catholic church, designed by Augustus Pugin. 11 July – London Waterloo station opens.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 26 July – Matale Rebellion against British rule in Sri Lanka. 29 July – Young Irelander Rebellion at Ballingarry, South Tipperary, is broken up by the Irish Constabulary. 24 August – The U.S. barque Ocean Monarch is burnt out off the Great Orme, North Wales, with the loss of 178, chiefly emigrants.http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/OCEANMONARCH.html Burning of the Ocean Monarch Liverpool Mercury 25 August 1848 14 October 2010 26 August – The Plymouth Brethren split into the Exclusive and Open Brethren. 31 August – The Public Health Act receives Royal Assent, establishing Boards of Health across England and Wales and paving the way for considerable improvements in public sanitation to counter endemic cholera in British cities.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 269–270 0-7126-5616-2 This year the third cholera pandemic reaches the UK. 16 September – William Lassell independently co-discovers Hyperion, one of the moons of Saturn.Discovery of new satellite of Saturn Lassell W. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 8 195 1848 1848MNRAS...8..195L 10.1093/mnras/8.9.195a free 1 November – First W H Smith bookstall at a railway station opens, at Euston Station, in London. 21 November – First convicts arrive at HM Prison Portland, the first in which inmates are required to serve on public works (in this case, quarrying stone for Portland Harbour breakwaters).Legg D. R. G. Portland Prison Illustrated (1848-2000) 2000 Sprint Signs and Graphics Weymouth 22 November – Battle of Ramnagar: Lord Gough makes some strategic blunders and British cavalry are repulsed with heavy losses, resulting in a Sikh victory.Victorian Worthies. 28 November – Murders at Stanfield Hall: Norfolk tenant farmer James Rush shoots and kills his landlord and his landlord's son in an elaborate attempt to avoid eviction.Oriel Sutherland The Stanfield Hall Murders https://jermy.org/shmurders-sutherland.html jermy.org 2025-12-31 23 December – A picture of the royal family gathered around a Christmas tree at Windsor Castle appears on the cover of The Illustrated London News (special Christmas supplement), popularising the custom of the tree in Britain. Undated 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 DevonportThomas J. Williams Priscilla Lydia Sellon: the restorer, after three centuries, of the religious life in the English Church London SPCK 1950 and the Community of St Mary the Virgin is founded at Wantage.Susan Mumm Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain Leicester University Press 1999 0-7185-0151-9 6–9 Cambridge rules for Association football drawn up. British, Dutch and German governments lay claim to New Guinea. Publications The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx (21 February).http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860 13 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 17 August 2007 dead W. 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 (as "by Acton Bell"). Edward Bulwer-Lytton's epic fantasy poem King Arthur (1848–9).Drabble, Margaret 2000 The Oxford Companion to English Literature 6th 147 Oxford University Press 0-19-866244-0 Charles Dickens' Christmas novella The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel Mary Barton (anonymous). 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. John Henry Newman's novel Loss and Gain: the story of a convert. William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis (serialised). Births 27 February – Hubert Parry, composer (died 1918) 3 March – Adelaide Neilson, actress (died 1880) 10 March – John William Brodie-Innes, member of the Golden Dawn (died 1923) 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, Scottish-born 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 Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930) 4 October – Frederic Weatherly, lyricist (died 1929) 11 October – James Acton, cricketer (died 1924) 15 November – Edwin Bibby, wrestler (died 1905) 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) 11 May – Tom Cribb, bare-knuckle boxer (born 1781) 27 May – Princess Sophia, fifth daughter of King George III (born 1777)Princess Sophia (1777-1848) 3 August – Edward Baines, newspaperman and politician (born 1774) 9 August – Frederick Marryat, author (born 1792)Frederick Marryat 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)Emily Bronte Biography, Works, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte Encyclopedia Britannica 17 April 2019 en References 1848 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1848 by country Category:1848 in Europe Category:1840s in the United Kingdom