1841 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — Lord Melbourne (Whig) (until 30 August), Robert Peel (Conservative) (starting 30 August)

Events

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.^[1]
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.^[2]
10 February — Penny Red postage stamp replaces the Penny Black.^[3]
20 February — The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
1 March — Opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the first to cross the Pennines.^[4]
4 March — First performance of Dion Boucicault's comedy London Assurance, presented by Charles Mathews at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
3 May — New Zealand becomes a British colony.^[5]
6 June (Sunday)
- 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.^[6]
7 June — Lord Melbourne loses a vote of no confidence against his government.
21 June — St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, dedicated as a Roman Catholic church.^[7]
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.^[8]
5 July — Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough.^[5]^[9]
17 July — First edition of the humorous magazine Punch published.^[10]
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.^[11]
28 August — Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel.^[12]
2 September — Reconsecration of Leeds Parish Church after reconstruction.^[13]
21 September — The London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout.^[14]
24 September — United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
30 October — A fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.^[15]
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.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew first opens to the public^[12] and William Hooker appointed director.
Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham.
London Library founded in Pall Mall.^[12]

Ongoing events

First Opium War (1839–1842)
First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)

Publications

Serialisation of W. Harrison Ainsworth's novel Old St. Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire 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.
Samuel Warren's novel Ten Thousand a Year.^[16]
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,^[5] it will be the oldest continuously published in the world (12 November).^[17]

Births

25 January — Jackie Fisher, admiral (died 1920)
28 January — Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (died 1904)
9 November — Edward VII (died 1910)
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)
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 — William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (born 1793)

References

↑ Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, 1, pp. 216–8.
↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
↑ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 10.
↑ Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4352-1.
1 2 3 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Bonham, Valerie (2004). "Hughes, Marian Rebecca (1817–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
↑ Stanton, Phoebe. Pugin. pp. 557–66.
↑ Body, Geoffrey (1985). Western Handbook – a digest of GWR and WR data. Weston-super-Mare: British Rail (Western). ISBN 0-905466-70-5.
↑ Derby Railway History Research Group (1989). The Midland Counties Railway. Gwernymynydd: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-11-3.
↑ Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895). The History of "Punch". p. 27.
↑ Thorpe, Trefor. "Between a rock and a wet place". Cadw. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
1 2 3 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 264–266. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ "History". Leeds Parish Church. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
↑ Turner, J. T. Howard (1977). The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: 1, Origins and Formation. London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0275-X.
↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
↑ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
↑ "The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991". Cambridge University Press.

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