1843 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 1843 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1843 English cricket season Events from the year 1843 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Robert Peel (Conservative) Foreign Secretary – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Home Secretary – Sir James Graham Events January – Quaker magazine The Friend begins publication.March 2025 6 January – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island.March 2025 20 January – Daniel M'Naghten shoots and kills the Prime Minister's private secretary, Edward Drummond, in Whitehall.Richard Moran http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39433 McNaughtan, Daniel (1802/3–1865) 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/39433 2011-02-02 4 March – M'Naghten is found not guilty of murder "by reason of insanity", giving rise to the M'Naghten Rules on criminal responsibility, and subsequently committed to Bethlem Hospital. 24 March – Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Mirs, securing Sindh province for the British Raj.March 2025 25 March – Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames, is opened to pedestrians.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 27 March – A decision in Foss v Harbottle, a leading precedent in English corporate law, declares that in any action in which a wrong is alleged to have been done to a company, the proper claimant is the company itself and not individual shareholders.Gary Slapper The cases that changed Britain: 1785-1869 The Times http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4159194.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3 19 June 2008 2011-06-16September 2024 medicmedic 4 April – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom following the death of Robert Southey on 21 March.F. B. Pinion A Wordsworth Chronology Basingstoke Macmillan Press 1988 0-333-38860-7 201 April – Protestant Martyrs' Memorial erected in Oxford.Darcy Lewis Timeline: Oxford TimeTravel-Britain.com https://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/towns/oxtime.shtml 2006 2010-10-18 4 May – Natal proclaimed British colony. 18 May – The Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place in Edinburgh. ? May – Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight opens as an amusement park. 19 July – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Britain is launched from Bristol.Royal Visit The Bristol Mirror 1–2 20 July 1843 5 August – Sarah Dazley, the last woman to be executed in public in England, is hanged for mariticide outside Bedford Prison. 22 August – Theatres Act ends the virtual monopoly on theatrical performances held by the patent theatres, encouraging the development of popular entertainment. September – Ada Lovelace translates and expands Menabrea's notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, including an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, regarded as the world's first computer program.John Fuegi Jo Francis Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes' IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25 4 16–26 10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887 October–December 2003 2 September – The Economist newspaper first published (preliminary issue dated August). 1 October – News of the World newspaper first published. It will run until 2011. 3–4 November – The statue of Nelson is placed atop Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. 13 December – Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 266–267 0-7126-5616-2 17 December – Publication of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol by Chapman & Hall in London at his expense. It introduces the character Ebenezer Scrooge. Released on 19 December, the first printing sells out by Christmas EveDickens Charles Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert 2006 A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Books Oxford University Press Oxford world's classics 978-0-19-280694-9 and inspires charitable giving.The Man Who Invented Christmas Film 2017 December – The world's first Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London from the artist John Callcott Horsley, are sent.György Buday 1992 The history of the Christmas card 8 Omnigraphics Undated The Albert helmet, devised in 1842 by the Prince Consort, is adopted by the Household Cavalry.Hoare Nell etal Exploring Museums: The Home Counties 1990 H.M.S.O 978-0-11-290471-7 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=vmotAQAAIAAJ Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society founded as a burial society. Marlborough College founded in Wiltshire for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy. Alfred Bird produces baking powder for the first time, in Birmingham.Matthew Cannon https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/alfred-bird-egg-free-custard-inventor-8040314 Alfred Bird: Egg-free custard inventor and chemist Birmingham Mail 2014-11-03 2018-02-25 Publications Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (begins serialisation January) and novella A Christmas Carol. John Stuart Mill's book A System of Logic. John Ruskin's book Modern Painters, vol. 1. Robert Smith Surtees' comic novel Handley Cross. Births 25 April – Princess Alice, member of the royal family (died 1878) 30 June – Ernest Mason Satow, diplomat and scholar (died 1929) 5 July – Mandell Creighton, historian and Bishop of London (died 1901) 4 September – Jabez Balfour, businessman, politician and fraudster (died 1916) Deaths 9 January – William Hedley, inventor and locomotive engineer (born 1779) 20 February – Mary Hays, writer and feminist (born 1759) 21 March – Robert Southey, poet (born 1774) 25 March – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (born 1813) 21 April – Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (born 1773) 1 June – William Abbot, actor (born 1798) 25 July – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist (born 1766)Day Lance McNeil Ian Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology 11 September 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-65019-4 786 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmoTeX3aGl4C&dq=Charles+Macintosh+29+december+1766&pg=PA786 en 16 August – Henry Acton, Unitarian minister (born 1797) 18 December – Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, Governor-General of India (born 1748) References 1843 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1843 by country Category:1843 in Europe Category:1840s in the United Kingdom