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United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1846
Events from the year
1846 in the
United Kingdom . This year is noted for the repeal of the
Corn Laws .
Incumbents
Events
5 January – the
United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the
Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
10 February –
First Anglo-Sikh War : British victory at the
Battle of Sobraon .
[1]
9 March – the conclusion of the First Anglo-Sikh War with the signing of the
Treaty of Lahore .
[2]
Kashmir is ceded to the
British East India Company and the
Koh-i-Noor diamond is surrendered to
Queen Victoria .
13 March –
Ballinglass Incident : eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass in
Ireland during the
Great Famine .
14 March – first property purchased for
Feargus O'Connor 's
Chartist -backed English
National Land Company to provide smallholdings and suffrage for working men, at
Heronsgate (O'Connorville) in Hertfordshire.
3 April – last
London -based
mail coach runs, to
Norwich .
[3]
20 April –
Jonathan Balls commits suicide in the Norfolk village of
Happisburgh , aged around 76. Subsequent investigations suggest that he murdered at least 22 people, almost all family members, by
arsenic poisoning over 20 years, making him one of Britain's most prolific
serial killers .
[4]
15 May – under the leadership of
Prime Minister
Robert Peel , the
House of Commons votes to repeal the
Corn Laws by passing an Importation Bill, replacing the old
colonial mercantile trade system with
free trade .
[5] On 25 June the
Duke of Wellington persuades the
House of Lords to pass the Act, which will take full effect from February 1849.
15 June –
Treaty of Washington establishes the 49th Parallel as the border between
Oregon and British
Canada .
[1]
22 June – the
North British Railway is opened to public traffic between
Edinburgh and
Berwick-upon-Tweed , the first line to cross the border between
Scotland and England.
Waverley Station is opened.
[6]
26 June – the
Great Northern Railway is authorised by
Act of Parliament with powers to construct a direct line from London to
York (with a loop via
Boston ), 233.5 mi (375.8 km) with a capital of £5,600,000, the largest single railway scheme ever approved by
Parliament .
[7] [
page needed ]
29 June – Peel resigns, and is succeeded as Prime Minister by
Lord John Russell (
Whig ). The Conservatives split into
Peelite and
Young England factions, the latter led by Disraeli.
9 July – a flood at
East Wheal Rose
lead mine in
Cornwall kills 39.
[8]
16 July – the
London and North Western Railway is formed in England by amalgamation of the
London and Birmingham Railway ,
Grand Junction Railway and
Manchester and Birmingham Railway .
[9]
30 July – opening of
Albert Dock, Liverpool .
[10]
1 August –
Fatal Accidents Act 1846 ("Lord Campbell's Act") provides for a
wrongful death claim in civil law.
8 August – the planet
Neptune is first observed but not recognised by
James Challis , director of the
Cambridge Observatory .
[11]
15 August – inauguration of
Scott Monument in
Edinburgh .
[12]
18 August –
Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the following
Acts
22 August –
Peel Park, Salford , and Queen's Park and
Philips Park in Manchester open as two of the world's first free
public parks .
[14]
26 August
28 August
3 September –
Electric Telegraph Company founded.
10 October –
William Lassell discovers
Triton , one of the moons of
Neptune .
21 December – surgeon
Robert Liston carries out the first operation under anaesthesia in Britain.
[2]
Undated
Publications
Births
9 February –
Whitaker Wright , fraudulent financier (died 1904) (suicide)
18 February –
Wilson Barrett , actor (died 1904)
6 March –
Henry Radcliffe Crocker , dermatologist (died 1909)
17 March –
Kate Greenaway , children's book illustrator and writer (died 1901)
3 May –
Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet , inventor, studio potter (died 1920)
25 May –
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (died 1923)
27 June –
Charles Stewart Parnell , Irish political leader (died 1891)
2 August –
Lucy Clifford (née Lane), novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (died 1929)
16 September –
Anna Kingsford , physician, advocate of women's rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarianism (died 1888)
13 November –
Herbert Standing , actor (died 1923)
Undated
Deaths
30 January –
Joseph Constantine Carpue , surgeon (born 1764)
9 February –
Henry Gally Knight , writer and traveler (born 1786)
10 March –
Harriette Wilson , courtesan and memoirist (born 1786)
16 April –
Domenico Dragonetti , double-bass virtuoso (born 1763 in Venice)
12 May – Sir
Robert Otway , admiral (born 1770)
22 June –
Benjamin Haydon , painter and writer (born 1786; suicide)
6 July –
Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal , lawyer and politician (born 1776)
12 July –
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , novelist (born 1790)
6 August –
John Bostock , physician and geologist (born 1773; cholera)
5 September –
Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe , colonial administrator (born 1785)
23 September –
John Ainsworth Horrocks , English-born explorer of South Australia (born 1818; accidentally shot)
26 September –
Thomas Clarkson , abolitionist (born 1760)
[23]
12 December –
Eliza Flower , musician and composer (born 1803; consumption)
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