1841 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 1841 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1841 English cricket season Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig) (until 30 August); Robert Peel (Conservative) (starting 30 August) Foreign Secretary – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (until 2 September) George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (starting 2 September) Home Secretary – Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (until 30 August) Sir James Graham (from 6 September) thumb|Density of the population of Great Britain in 1841 Events 4 January – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company Thames is wrecked on the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 61 of the 65 on board;Larn Richard Richard Larn Bridget Wreck & Rescue round the Cornish coast 2006 Tor Mark Press Redruth 978-0-85025-406-8 48 at least 20 other ships run aground round the British Isles today. 20 January – Convention of Chuenpi agreed between Charles Elliot and Qishan of the Qing dynasty. 26 January – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong. 27 January – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered and named by James Clark Ross.Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, 1, pp. 216–8. 28 January – Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. February – H. Fox Talbot obtains a patent for the calotype process in photography.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 10 February – Penny Red postage stamp replaces the Penny Black.Richard Blake The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 Caterham Marden 10 20 February – The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives. March – Richard Beard opens England's first commercial photographic studio in London, producing daguerreotype portraits.Heathcote, B. V. Heathcote, P. F. amp Richard Beard: an ingenious and enterprising patentee History of Photography 3 1979 313–329 4 10.1080/03087298.1979.10441125 1 March – Opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the first to cross the Pennines.Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1 1969 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4352-1 4 March – First performance of Dion Boucicault's comedy London Assurance, presented by Charles Mathews at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. April – Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew first opens to the public and William Hooker appointed director. 3 May New Zealand becomes a separate British colony,Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 having previously been administered as part of the Colony of New South Wales. London Library opens in Pall Mall. 6 June United Kingdom Census held, the first to record names and approximate ages of every household member and to be administered nationally. Marian Hughes becomes the first woman to take religious vows in communion with the Anglican Province of Canterbury since the Reformation, making them privately to E. B. Pusey in Oxford.Valerie Bonham Hughes, Marian Rebecca (1817–1912) 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/39553 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39553 2010-11-26 7 June – Lord Melbourne loses a vote of no confidence against his government. 21 June – St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham is dedicated as a Roman Catholic church.Phoebe Stanton Pugin 557–66 29 June–22 July – General election, Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives take control of the House of Commons. 30 June – Great Western Railway completed throughout between London and Bristol.Body Geoffrey Western Handbook – a digest of GWR and WR data 1985 British Rail (Western) Weston-super-Mare 0-905466-70-5 5 July – Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough.Derby Railway History Research Group The Midland Counties Railway 1989 Railway and Canal Historical Society Gwernymynydd 0-901461-11-3 17 July – The first edition of the humorous magazine Punch is published.The History of "Punch" https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog Marion Harry Spielmann 1895 27 26 July – The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.Trefor Thorpe Between a rock and a wet place Cadw http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/upload/resourcepool/Skerries6067.htm 2011-02-23 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20050302103925/http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/upload/resourcepool/Skerries6067.htm 2 March 2005 28 August – Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 264–266 0-7126-5616-2 2 September – Reconsecration of Leeds Parish Church after reconstruction.History http://www.leedsparishchurch.org.uk/About-Us/History/ Leeds Parish Church 2011-05-04 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110430075125/https://www.leedsparishchurch.org.uk/About-Us/History/ 30 April 2011 21 September – The London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout.Turner J. T. Howard The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: 1, Origins and Formation 1977 Batsford London 0-7134-0275-X 24 September – The United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah. 10 October – First Opium War: Battle of Chinhai – British capture a Chinese garrison. 13 October – First Opium War: British occupy Ningbo. 27 October – Anglican clergyman Richard Sibthorp becomes the first Tractarian to be received into the Roman Catholic Church, by Nicholas Wiseman at St Mary's College, Oscott (he reconverts two years later). 30 October – A fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb Hibbert, Christopher Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 287 9 November – Queen Victoria gives birth to her second child and first son, Albert Edward, the last British heir apparent to hold the title from birth. 13 November – Surgeon James Braid attends his first demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. 23 December – First Anglo-Afghan War: at a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters. Undated Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross additionally discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror. Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham. Whitelands College is established by the Church of England's National Society as a teacher training college for women in London, the first college of higher education in the UK to admit women. Ulster Canal completed.Ruth Delany A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways Belfast Appletree Press 1986 0-86281-200-3 Ongoing First Opium War (1839–1842) First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Publications W. Harrison Ainsworth's novel Old St. Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (serialised in The Sunday Times, 3 January – 26 December). Thomas Carlyle's lectures On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History. Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Mrs Gore's novel Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb. John Henry Newman's Tract 90 (Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles, dated 25 January). Augustus Pugin's lectures The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. Samuel Warren's novel Ten Thousand a Year.Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965 Vocal Melodies of Scotland, containing the first publication of the song "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". The Gardeners' Chronicle launched. The Jewish Chronicle launched; the first Jewish newspaper in the UK, it will be the oldest continuously published in the world when it ceases publication in 2020 (12 November).http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521019133 The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991 Cambridge University Press Births 25 January – Jackie Fisher, admiral (died 1920) 28 January – Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (died 1904) 9 November – King Edward VII (died 1910)Edward VII https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/edward-vii Westminster Abbey 7 October 2022 en William George Aston, consular official (died 1911) Deaths 2 February – Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (born 1774) 12 February – Astley Cooper, surgeon and anatomist (born 1768) 17 February – Joseph Chitty, lawyer and legal writer (born 1775) 22 April – Edward Draper, army officer and colonial administrator (born 1776) 20 May – Joseph Blanco White, theologian (born 1775) 1 June – Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter (born 1785) 3 July – Rosemond Mountain, actress and singer (born 1780s?) 24 August – Theodore Hook, author (born 1788) 1 December – George Birkbeck, doctor, academic and philanthropist (born 1776) 23 December – Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (born 1793) References 1841 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1841 by country Category:1841 in Europe Category:1840s in the United Kingdom