1834 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 1834 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1834 English cricket season Events from the year 1834 in the United Kingdom. Uniquely, four Prime Ministers serve during the year. Incumbents Monarch – William IV Prime Minister – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig) (until 16 July); William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig) (starting 16 July, until 14 November); Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (Tory) (starting 14 November, until 10 December); Robert Peel (Conservative) (starting 10 December) Foreign Secretary – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (until 14 November) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (starting 14 November) Home Secretary – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (until 16 July) John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (until 15 November) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (until 15 December) Henry Goulburn (starting 15 December) Secretary of War – Edward Smith-Stanley (until 5 June) Thomas Spring Rice (5 June until 14 November) Duke of Wellington (17 November to 9 December) Lord Aberdeen (starting 20 December) Events thumb|right|250px|The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons by J. M. W. Turner (1835). Turner witnessed the fire (16 October 1834), and painted the subject several times. February – Robert Owen organises the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union.Marsh, Arthur Historical Directory of Trade Unions 458 etal March – William Whewell (anonymously) first publishes the term scientist in the Quarterly Review (but notes it as "not generally palatable").scientist, n. Oxford English Dictionary online version Oxford University Press http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/172698 2012-03-28 March 2011 18 March – The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset farm labourers, are sentenced to be transported to a penal colony for forming a trade union.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 22 April – The UK, France, Spain and Portugal sign the Quadruple Alliance. 23 May – The Exchequer is abolished as a revenue collecting department of the British government by the Office of Receipt of Exchequer Act. 23 June – HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered man-of-war (a paddle gunvessel).History of Pembroke Dockyard John Guard http://www.gwpda.org/naval/pembroke.htm 5 January 2004 2012-01-10 16 July – Lord Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 25 July – Hanging in chains upon a gibbet after execution is abolished in England by the Hanging-in-Chains Abolition Act. August – Foresters Friendly Society formed as the Ancient Order of Foresters in Rochdale. 1 August – Slavery abolished in most of the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Construction begins on a Wilberforce Monument in Kingston upon Hull.Kitching Sophie 2018-02-09 The bizarre reason this Hull landmark was moved 82 years ago https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/bizarre-reason-hull-landmark-moved-1176719 live https://web.archive.org/web/20210302144359/https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/bizarre-reason-hull-landmark-moved-1176719 2021-03-02 2021-10-01 Hull Daily Mail 14 August – Poor Law Amendment Act states the able-bodied cannot receive assistance unless they enter a workhouse; poor-law authorities should no longer attempt to identify the fathers of illegitimate children to recover support from them. 15 August – Parliament approves the creation of the colony of South Australia.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 259–260 0-7126-5616-2 11 September – Emigrant ship Sybelle out of Cromarty (Scotland) is wrecked off St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew.Shipping Intelligence Liverpool Mercury 24 October 1834 1225 22 September – The Leeds and Selby Railway in Yorkshire is officially opened. At 700 yd m long, its Marsh Lane tunnel through Richmond Hill, Leeds, is the world's longest railway tunnel at this date and the first through which passengers are hauled by steam locomotives.Yorkshire's First Main Line: The Leeds & Selby Railway Anthony Dawson Market Drayton Railway and Canal Historical Society 2020 978-0-901461-67-4 21, 25, 65 7 October – Birmingham Town Hall, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival. 16 October – Burning of Parliament: Much of the Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire resulting from the burning of tally sticks formerly used by the Exchequer.Fires, Great The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance Walford, Cornelius C. & E. Layton 1876 74-75 14 November – William IV dismisses the government of Melbourne, after proposals for Church reform are made. The Duke of Wellington forms a caretaker government. This will be the last time a British sovereign chooses a Prime Minister contrary to the will of Parliament. 24 November – Opening of the first purpose-built Temperance Hall in Britain, at Garstang in Lancashire.Andrew Davison 'Try the alternative': the built heritage of the temperance movement Brewery History Brewery History Society 123 Summer 2006 92–109 10 December – Sir Robert Peel forms his first government. 17 December – The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Dublin and Kingstown. 18 December Tamworth Manifesto published: Peel outlines his guiding principles of government, regarded as the basis of the modern Conservative Party.Marjorie Bloy The Peel Web A Web of English History http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/politics/tam1.htm 2011 2011-02-02 Tithe War in Ireland: "Rathcormac massacre": At Gortroe, near Rathcormac, County Cork, armed Constabulary reinforced by the regular British Army kill at least nine and wound thirty protesters against tithes.The Rathcormac Inquest https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1835/mar/03/the-rathcormac-inquest House of Commons Debates 3 March 1835 26 523–4 2012-10-17Rathcormac Tithe Commemoration Committee A souvenir programme commemorating the Rathmore-Gortroe massacre which took place during the Tithe War on the 18 December, 1834 1984 23 December – Architect and inventor Joseph Hansom patents the Hansom cab. 26 December – Ursulines of Jesus take up residence at St Margaret's Convent in the Whitehouse in Edinburgh, the first Roman Catholic convent established in Scotland since the Reformation;http://www.gilliscentre.org.uk/guidebook.pdf Introduction The Gillis Centre Edinburgh 2014-04-28 it will be another 5 years before the first such modern establishment in England. Undated British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended. The Institute of British Architects in London, predecessor of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is formed. Harrods founded as a wholesale tea dealer in Stepney in the East End of London.http://www.harrods.com/Cultures/en-GB/History/ A Brief History of Harrods 2007-09-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20070919145618/http://www.harrods.com/Cultures/en-GB/History/ 19 September 2007 live Augustus Smith acquires the lease on the Isles of Scilly from the Duchy of Cornwall. History of computing hardware: Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of an "analytical engine", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his lifetime.http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1878-3.aspx Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834–1871 (Trial model) Science Museum (London) 2010-10-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20100920230519/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1878-3.aspx 20 September 2010 deadAnthony Hyman R. Anthony Hyman Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer Oxford University Press 1982 0-19-858170-X A "Fancy Toy Dog Show" is held at Elephant and Castle in London.The World of Show Dogs and Dog Shows Bo Bengtson 2012 Fox Chapel https://books.google.com/books?id=_asKBgAAQBAJ&q=dog+show+elephant+1834&pg=PA30 978-1620080535 2019-01-22 With an average Central England temperature of 10.51 C F or, this narrowly overtakes 1733 as the hottest calendar year in the CET record until equalled in 1921 and beaten in 1949.Hadley Centre Central England Temperature. Publications W. Harrison Ainsworth's (anonymous) first novel Rookwood, an historical romance featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin. Edward Bulwer's (anonymous) novel The Last Days of Pompeii. Cuthbert Sharp's collection The Bishoprick Garland. Births 28 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, Anglican rector and eclectic scholar (died 1924) 17 February – John Thelwall, radical (born 1764) 15 February – William Henry Preece, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1913) 19 February – Charles Davis Lucas, Irish Victoria Cross recipient (died 1914) 28 February – Charles Santley, baritone (died 1922) 6 March – George du Maurier, cartoonist and novelist (died 1896) 16 March – James Hector, geologist (died 1907)Dell R. K. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1990 Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james 13 October 2021 Hector, James 24 March – William Morris, artist, writer, socialist and activist (died 1896) 30 April – John Lubbock, banker, archaeologist, Liberal politician, philanthropist and polymath (died 1913) 19 June – Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher (died 1892) 28 June – Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died 1917) 4 July – Christopher Dresser, designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (died 1904) 4 August – John Venn, mathematician (died 1923) 23 August – Hugh Owen Thomas, Welsh-born orthopaedic surgeon (died 1891) 9 September – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, novelist (died 1903) 23 November – James Thomson ("B.V."), Scottish-born poet (died 1882) 24 December – Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, chemist (died 1919) Deaths 12 January – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1759) 11 April – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (born 1757) 12 July – David Douglas, botanist (born 1799) 25 July – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (born 1772) 1 August – Robert Morrison, Protestant missionary to China (born 1782) 2 September – Thomas Telford, engineer (born 1757) 16 September – William Blackwood, writer (born 1776) 11 October – William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Navy officer, politician and diplomat (born 1786) 5 December – Thomas Pringle, poet (born 1789) 23 December – Thomas Malthus, demographer and economist (born 1766) 27 December – Charles Lamb, essayist (born 1775) References 2 1834 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1834 by country Category:1834 in Europe Category:1830s in the United Kingdom