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United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1845
Events from the year
1845 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
3 January – first known arrest of a fugitive achieved through use of the new
electric telegraph when murderer
John Tawell is arrested after being followed by a detective alerted prior to Tawell's arrival at
London Paddington station .
February –
Andover workhouse scandal begins.
7 February – in the
British Museum , a drunken visitor smashes the
Portland Vase which takes months to repair.
[1]
11 March –
Flagstaff War : Chiefs
Kawiti and
Hōne Heke lead 700
Māori people in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororāreka, later known as
Russell, New Zealand .
15 March – first
University Boat Race to use the present
Putney to
Mortlake course (albeit in the reverse direction to that used today).
[2]
17 March –
Stephen Perry patents the
rubber band .
[3]
26 March – Sisterhood of the Holy Cross ('Park Village Community') established as the first
Anglican sisterhood , to minister to the poor of
St Pancras, London .
[4]
1 May – first cricket match to be played at the
Kennington Oval .
[2]
2 May – the
Yarmouth suspension bridge at
Great Yarmouth ,
Norfolk ,
collapses : 79 killed.
[5]
19 May –
HMS Erebus and
HMS Terror with 134 men, comprising Sir
John Franklin 's
expedition to find the
Northwest Passage , sail from
Greenhithe on the
Thames . They will last be seen in the summer entering
Baffin Bay .
[6]
20 May – the last fatal duel between Englishmen on English soil takes place near
Gosport .
[7]
James Alexander Seton is shot and dies twelve days later from his wound. His opponent, Royal Marine Lieutenant Charles Lawes Pym, is tried for murder a year later, but acquitted.
31 May – launch of the first English lake steamer Lady of the Lake for
Windermere .
[8]
21 July – an unprecedented number of railway acts receive
Royal Assent from
Queen Victoria as the
railway mania approaches its peak,
Parliament having sanctioned 2,816 mi (4,532 km) of new construction.
[9]
26 July–10 August –
Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's iron
steamship
SS Great Britain makes the
Transatlantic crossing from
Liverpool to
New York , the first
screw propelled vessel to make the passage.
[10]
[11]
31 July –
Jews are permitted to hold certain municipal offices.
9 August –
Aberdeen Act instructing the Royal Navy to counter the
Brazilian
slave trade , signed.
9 September –
potato blight breaks out in
Ireland :
[2] beginning of the
Great Famine .
18 September –
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata formally declared.
September – first students admitted to the
Royal Agricultural College ,
Cirencester , the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world.
[12]
9 October – the eminent and controversial
Anglican ,
John Henry Newman , is received into the
Roman Catholic Church .
16 October –
Bank of England raises the
bank rate to 3%.
31 October–1 November – an emergency meeting of the
Cabinet (summoned on 15 October by Sir
Robert Peel , the
Prime Minister ) votes against Peel on the distribution of famine relief in Ireland, considering it would call the
Corn Laws into question.
[13]
[14]
9–10 November – Peel orders the secret purchase of £100,000 worth of
maize and meal from the United States for distribution in Ireland.
[13]
[15]
[16]
20 November – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata:
Battle of Vuelta de Obligado : the Anglo-French fleet narrowly defeats the
Argentine Confederation on the waters of the
Paraná River but the victors suffer serious damage to their ships and Argentina attracts political support in South America.
5 December – unable to persuade his Cabinet to repeal the Corn Laws in the face of the Great Famine in Ireland, Peel tenders his resignation as Prime Minister
[15] to the Queen but is reinstated days later when
Lord John Russell is unable to form a government.
[13]
22–23 December –
First Anglo-Sikh War : British forces defeat Sikhs at
Battle of Ferozeshah in
Punjab .
[17]
30 December –
Queen's Colleges of
Belfast ,
Cork and
Galway are incorporated in
Ireland .
Undated
Publications
Births
14 January –
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne , statesman and colonial administrator (died 1927 in Ireland)
14 February –
Quintin Hogg , philanthropist (died 1903)
4 May –
William Kingdon Clifford , geometer and philosopher (died 1879)
14 May –
L. S. Bevington , anarchist poet and essayist (died 1895)
4 July –
Thomas John Barnardo , Irish-born philanthropist (died 1905)
9 July –
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto , politician (died 1914)
1 September –
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen , field marshal (died 1932)
Deaths
11 January –
Etheldred Benett , geologist (born 1776)
28 January –
Mary Ann Browne , poet and writer of musical scores (born 1812)
19 February –
Sir Fowell Buxton , brewer, politician, abolitionist and social reformer (born 1786)
22 February
13 March –
John Frederic Daniell , physical scientist (born 1790)
3 May –
Thomas Hood , poet and humorist (born 1799)
6 June –
John Marshall , textile manufacturer (born 1765)
17 June –
Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), comic poet and clergyman (born 1788)
17 July –
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1764)
7 October –
John Jackson , boxer (born 1769)
12 October –
Elizabeth Fry , humanitarian (born 1780)
26 October –
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne , Scottish songwriter and collector (born 1766)
17 November – Sir
Salusbury Pryce Humphreys , admiral (born 1778)
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