1849 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1849
Events from the year 1849 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
13 January – Second Anglo-Sikh War : British forces retreat from the Battle of Chillianwala .
22 January – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The city of Multan falls to the British East India Company following the Siege of Multan .
February–May – shareholder enquiries into the conduct of railway financier George Hudson begin his downfall
1 February – abolition of the Corn Laws by the Importation Act 1846 comes fully into effect.
17 February – 65 people, almost all under the age of 20, are crushed to death in a panic caused by a small fire in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow.[1]
21 February – Second Anglo-Sikh War : Battle of Gujrat – British East India Company forces defeat those of the Sikh Empire in Punjab .
1 March – Nathaniel Cooke registers the design of the Staunton chess set , which is first marketed in September by Jaques of London with an endorsement by Howard Staunton .
3 March – the Arana-Southern Treaty with the Argentine Confederation ends British involvement in the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata .
30 March – the Second Anglo-Sikh War ends with the U.K. annexing the Punjab .
21 April – Great Famine (Ireland) : 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of cholera .[2]
May – first exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in London: John Everett Millais ' Isabella and Holman Hunt 's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition , and Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park Corner .
19 May – Irishman William Hamilton arrested after shooting blank shots at Queen Victoria on Constitution Hill, London .[3]
Summer – Karl Marx moves from Paris to London, where he will spend the remainder of his life.
2–12 August – Visit of Queen Victoria to Cork , Dublin and Belfast .[4]
9 August – "The Bermondsey Horror": Marie Manning and her husband, Frederick, murder her lover Patrick O'Connor in London. On 13 November they are hanged together publicly before a large crowd by William Calcraft outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol for the crime.[5]
13 December – foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
17 December – a customer, probably Edward Coke , collects the first bowler hat (devised by London hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler) from hatters Lock & Co. of St James's .[6]
Undated
Ongoing
Publications
Births
Deaths
9 January – William Siborne , Army officer and military historian (born 1797)
19 February – Bernard Barton , poet (born 1784)
20 March – James Justinian Morier , diplomat and novelist (born 1780)
22 May – Maria Edgeworth , novelist (born 1767)
25 May – Sir Benjamin D'Urban , general and colonial administrator (born 1777)
28 May – Anne Brontë , author (born 1820)[13]
30 June – William Ward , cricketer (born 1787)
12 July – Horace Smith , poet (born 1779)
31 August – Peter Allan of Marsden , eccentric (born 1799)
6 September – Edward Stanley , Bishop of Norwich (born 1779)
16 September – Thomas Jones , missionary (born 1810)
20 October – Richard Ryan , biographer (born 1797)
13 November – William Etty , painter (born 1787)
27 November – Henry Seymour (Knoyle) , politician (born 1776)
2 December – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , queen dowager of William IV (born 1792)
12 December – Sir Marc Isambard Brunel , engineer (born 1769 in France)
References
^ "The Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow" . Arthur Lloyd.co.uk: The Music Hall and Theatre History Site . Retrieved 21 May 2021 .
^ Ross, David (2002). Ireland: History of a Nation (New ed.). New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. p. 313 . ISBN 1842051644 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 .
^ Connolly, Sean (2008). "Queen Victoria in Ireland, August 1849" . Irish History Live . Queen's University Belfast . Retrieved 5 August 2012 .
^ Borowitz, Albert (1981). The Woman Who Murdered Black Satin: The Bermondsey Horror . Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0320-5 .
^ Bloxham, Andy (5 October 2010). "Bowler hat makes a comeback" . The Daily Telegraph . London. Retrieved 10 May 2013 .
^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book . Chapman and Hall.
^ "The Story of the Florin or Two Shilling Piece" . Blackpool: Chard. Retrieved 6 April 2012 .
^ "House of Fraser archive project" (PDF) .
^ Paul, Herbert (1906). The Life of Froude . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 47–48.
^ Willey, Basil (1956). "J. A. Froude". More Nineteenth Century Studies: a Group of Honest Doubters . London: Chatto & Windus. p. 131.
^ Ashton, Rosemary (1989). "Doubting Clerics: From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot". In Jasper & Wright (ed.). The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe . New York: St. Martins. p. 76.
^ "Anne Brontë | British author" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 17 April 2019 .