1841 in the United Kingdom United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1841
Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
4 January – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company SS Thames is wrecked on the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly , with the loss of 61 of the 65 on board;[ 1]
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 .[ 2]
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.[ 3]
10 February – Penny Red postage stamp replaces the Penny Black .[ 4]
20 February – The Governor Fenner , carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
March – Richard Beard opens England's first commercial photographic studio in London, producing daguerreotype portraits.[ 5]
1 March – Opening throughout of the Manchester and Leeds Railway , the first to cross the Pennines .[ 6]
4 March – First performance of Dion Boucicault 's comedy London Assurance Charles Mathews at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden .
April – Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew first opens to the public[ 7] William Hooker appointed director.
3 May
6 June
7 June – Lord Melbourne loses a vote of no confidence against his government.
21 June – St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham is dedicated as a Roman Catholic church.[ 10]
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 .[ 11]
5 July – Thomas Cook arranges his first excursion, taking 570 temperance campaigners on the Midland Counties Railway from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough .[ 8] [ 12]
17 July – The first edition of the humorous magazine Punch [ 13]
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 .[ 14]
28 August – Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel .[ 7]
2 September – Reconsecration of Leeds Parish Church after reconstruction.[ 15]
21 September – The London and Brighton Railway is opened throughout.[ 16]
24 September – The United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei ; James Brooke is appointed rajah .
10 October – First Opium War : Battle of Chinhai – British capture a Chinese garrison.
13 October – First Opium War: British occupy Ningbo .
27 October – Anglican clergyman Richard Sibthorp becomes the first Tractarian to be received into the Roman Catholic Church , by Nicholas Wiseman at St Mary's College, Oscott (he reconverts two years later).
30 October – A fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.[ 17]
13 November – Surgeon James Braid attends his first demonstration of animal magnetism 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
Ongoing
Publications
Births
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)
22 April – Edward Draper , army officer and colonial administrator (born 1776)
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 – Sir William Hay Macnaghten , Anglo-Indian diplomat (born 1793)
References
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^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1 ^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 . Caterham: Marden. p. 10. ^ Heathcote, B. V. & Heathcote, P. F. (1979). "Richard Beard: an ingenious and enterprising patentee". History of Photography . 3 (4): 313– 329. doi :10.1080/03087298.1979.10441125 . ^ Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1 . Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4352-1 ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 264– 266. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ a b c 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 doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/39553 . Retrieved 26 November 2010 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ 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" 27 . ^ Thorpe, Trefor. "Between a rock and a wet place" . Cadw . Archived from the original on 2 March 2005. Retrieved 23 February 2011 . ^ "History" . Leeds Parish Church . Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2011 .^ 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 ^ Delany, Ruth (1986). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways . Belfast: Appletree Press. ISBN 0-86281-200-3 ^ 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.^ "Edward VII" . Westminster Abbey . Retrieved 7 October 2022 .
