1852 in the United Kingdom

none October 2020 1852 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1852 English cricket season Events from the year 1852 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Lord John Russell (Whig) (until 23 February); Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Conservative) (starting 23 February, until 19 December); George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (Coalition) (starting 19 December) Events January – New Model Union the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Smiths, Millwrights and Patternmakers involved in a 3-month lockout. 4 January – The wooden paddle steamer RMS Amazon catches fire and sinks on her maiden voyage in the Bay of Biscay with between 105 and 115 killed and 58 saved.Nicol Stuart 2001 MacQueen's Legacy: Ships of the Royal Mail Line Brimscombe Port Tempus Publishing 17 January – United Kingdom recognises the independence of the Transvaal. 3 February – The new chamber of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the Palace of Westminster, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, is opened. Later this month, Pugin suffers a mental breakdown, days after designing the clock tower for the Palace, dying in September.Hill Rosemary 2007 God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain 482–490 5 February – Holmfirth Flood caused by collapse of the embankment at Bilberry reservoir in the West Riding of Yorkshire: 81 killed.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/holmfirth1.shtml Holmfirth – Is there more to it than Last of the Summer Wine? BBC 11 February – The first British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London. One for gentlemen had opened on 2 February in Fleet Street. 14 February – Great Ormond Street Hospital in London admits its first child patient.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 21 February – Earl Russell resigns as Prime Minister after his Militia Bill is amended.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 272–273 0-7126-5616-2 23 February – The Earl of Derby forms a minority Protectionist Conservative government. 25 February – Birkenhead 1845 6 sinks near Cape Town, British Cape Colony. Only 193 of the 643 on board survive, after troops stand firm on the deck so as not to overwhelm the lifeboats containing women and children. 27 February – Lord Derby appoints Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. 1 March – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. April – Samuel Orchart Beeton begins publication of The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, the first for women.Margaret Beetham Beeton, Samuel Orchart (1831–1877) 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/45481 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45481 2010-10-04 1 April – Start of the Second Burmese War. 21 April – St George's Cathedral, Southwark, St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, Nottingham Cathedral and Salford Cathedral are raised to the dignity of cathedrals of the Roman Catholic church by decree of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.Decreta Quatuor Conciliorum Provincialium Westmonasteriensium, 2nd edn, London: Burns & Oates, p.56; translation in: Robert Guy OSB, The Synods in English, Stratford-on-Avon: St Gregory Press, 1886 p.101. May – The Museum of Manufactures, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened in London, initially at Marlborough House.16 The Victoria and Albert Museum: the History of its Building https://archive.org/details/victoriaalbertm00phys registration John Physick 1982 Oxford Phaidon 978-0-7148-8001-3 21 June – The trial of Cardinal John Henry Newman for the defamation of Giacinto Achilli opens in London. Newman is convicted on 25 June.Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman 1912 Ward W. 291 http://www.newmanreader.org/biography/ward/volume1/chapter10.html 10: The Achilli Trial Longmans, Green and Co London 29 June – Protestant-Catholic riots in Stockport.Lord Derby looses bigotry on the streets https://www.theguardian.com/news/1852/jul/03/mainsection.fromthearchive 3 July 1852 The Guardian 2012-07-12 30 June – Parliament passes: New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, granting the British colony self-government with a representative constitution. Common Law Procedure Act.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/15-16/76/introduction Common Law Procedure Act 1852 legislation.gov.uk 2022-08-15 July – The first Synod of the newly created Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster is held at St Mary's College, Oscott, Birmingham. 7–31 July – General election: Lord Derby retains power. 23 August – George Jennings receives a patent for improvements to the flush toilet.Innovations in toilet design https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-topic/business-finance-and-innovation/toilet-design/ The National Archives 2024-11-01 2 September – The public library in Campfield, Manchester, is the first to offer free lendinghttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2238494.stm BBC News Anniversary of first public library 5 September 2002 14 April 2010 under the Public Libraries Act 1850. 8 September – The Inman Line is the first to offer United States-bound migrants steerage passage in a steamer, City of Glasgow 1850 6. 1 October – Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems. 14 October – Great Northern Railway opens London King's Cross station,Jackson Alan A. London's Termini 1985 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-8634-4 the largest in Europe at this time. 19 October – The last fatal duel on English soil takes place on Priest Hill, between Englefield Green and Old Windsor, between two French political exiles Emmanuel Barthélemy and Frederic Cournet.http://keepenglefieldgreen.org/page12.htm The common is steeped in history Keep Englefield Green – The Heritage Keepenglefieldgreen.org 2010-05-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726214658/http://keepenglefieldgreen.org/page12.htm 2011-07-26 dead Cournet is killed; Barthélemy is tried for murder but convicted only of manslaughter and serves a few months in prison. He is hanged two years later after another killing. 1–30 November – Second-wettest month in the EWP series (wettest until 1903) with an average of 202.5 mm in 2.Hadley Center Ranked EWP. It beats November 1772 with 200.8 mm in 2. 18 November – The State Funeral of the Duke of Wellington takes place at St Paul's Cathedral 17 December – Earl of Derby resigns as Prime Minister, following the defeat of his budget. 28 December – Earl of Aberdeen becomes Prime Minister, leading a Whig-Peelite coalition. Undated End of the Great Famine (Ireland).Christine Kinealy This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–1852 Dublin Gill & Macmillan 1994 0-7171-4011-3 xvi-ii In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, and the same is true of cities on the east coast of North America. The House of Mercy Anglican sisterhood (which becomes the Community of St John Baptist) is established at Clewer, near Windsor, to minister to reformed prostitutes and other marginalised women.Susan Mumm Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain Leicester University Press 1999 0-7185-0151-9 8 Nailmakers' Strike in the West Midlands.Fletcher M. H. W. Netherton: Edward I to Edward VIII Dudley Public Libraries 1969 0-900911-05-0 Publications Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (serialisation from March). Roget's Thesaurus (1st edition).http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860 2007-09-13 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 2007-08-17 William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The History of Henry Esmond. Births 18 April – George Clausen, graphic artist (died 1944) 4 May – Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (died 1934) 24 May – Cunninghame Graham, politician, adventurer and writer (died 1936) 30 June – Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, politician and courtier (died 1930) 4 July – E. S. Prior, Arts and Crafts architect and theorist (died 1932) 27 July – Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (died 1901) 4 August – Charles Coborn, born Colin McCallum, music-hall singer (died 1945) 23 August – Arnold Toynbee, economic historian (died 1883) 9 September – John Henry Poynting, physicist (died 1914) 12 September – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1928) 21 September – Edmund Leighton, historical genre painter (died 1922) 28 September – John French, World War I field marshal (died 1925) 30 September – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish-born composer (died 1924) 2 October – William Ramsay, Scottish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916) 3 October – Charles Cripps, lawyer and politician (died 1941) 17 October – George Egerton, admiral (died 1940) 21 December – George Callaghan, admiral (died 1920) Full date unknown John Hawdon, British scullerEdward Hanlan Champions Oarsman, Otago Daily Times, Issue 6907, 5 April 1884, published by Albert S Manders & Co, Melbourne 1884. Kate Vaughan, born Catherine Candelin, dancer and actress (died 1903) Deaths 1 January – John George Children, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (born 1777) 10 February – Samuel Prout, painter (born 1783)http://artuk.org/discover/artists/prout-samuel-17831852 Samuel Prout (1783-1852) artuk.org 2017-01-03 5 April – James Grant, major-general (born 1778) 3 May – Sara Coleridge, author and translator (born 1802) 2 June – William Forster Lloyd, economist (born 1794)William Forster Lloyd, 1795-1852 24 August – Sarah Guppy, inventor (born 1770) 4 September – William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (born 1796) 14 September Augustus Pugin, architect and designer (born 1812) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1769) 30 September – Mary Matilda Betham, diarist, scholar and poet (born 1776) 7 October – Sir Edward Troubridge, 2nd Baronet, admiral (born ca. 1787) 9 November – John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, peer and lay Roman Catholic leader (born 1791) 10 November – Gideon Mantell, geologist and palaeontologist (born 1790) 20 November – Mary Berry, writer (born 1763) 27 November – Ada Lovelace, early computer pioneer, daughter of Lord Byron (born 1815) References 1852 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1852 by country Category:1852 in Europe Category:1850s in the United Kingdom