- 1852 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1852 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , Liberal (until23 February ),Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , Conservative (until19 December ),George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ,Peelite Events
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17 January - United Kingdom recognises the independence of theTransvaal .
*14 February - TheGreat Ormond Street Hospital inLondon admits its first patient.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*21 February - Earl Russell resigns as Prime Minister after his Militia Bill is amended.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 272-273|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*23 February - Earl of Derby forms a minority Conservative government.
*1 March -Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointedLord Lieutenant of Ireland .
*1 April - Start of theSecond Burmese War .
*21 June - Trial of CardinalJohn Henry Newman for thedefamation ofGiacinto Achilli opens in London. Newman was convicted on25 June . [cite book | title=Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman | year=1912 | edition=2 vols. | author=Ward, W. | pages= [http://www.newmanreader.org/biography/ward/volume1/chapter10.html Chapter 10: The Achilli Trial] , "p."291 | publisher=Longmans, Green and Co | location=London ]
*30 June - Colony ofNew Zealand granted its first representative government.
*4 November - General election won by the Conservative Party underEdward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby .
*11 November - NewPalace of Westminster opens in London.
*17 December - Earl of Derby resigns as Prime Minister, following the defeat of his budget.
*28 December - Earl of Aberdeen becomes Prime Minister, leading a Whig-Peelite coalition.Undated
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King's Cross Station opens, the largest in Europe at the time.Publications
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Roget's Thesaurus ".cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1840-1860|accessdate=2007-09-13]
* Serialisation ofCharles Dickens ' novel "Bleak House ".
*William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel "The History of Henry Esmond ".Births
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4 May -Alice Liddell , schoolgirl inspiration for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland " (died 1934)
*23 August -Arnold Toynbee , economic historian (died 1883)
*12 September -Herbert Henry Asquith ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1928)
*28 September -John French, 1st Earl of Ypres , World War I field marshal (died 1925)
*2 October -William Ramsay , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)Deaths
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10 February -Samuel Prout , painter (born 1783)
*4 September -William MacGillivray , naturalist and ornithologist (born 1796)
*14 September -Augustus Pugin , architect (born 1812)
*14 September -Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , general andPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1769)
*21 November - Mary Berry, writer (born 1763)
*27 November -Augusta Lovelace , early computer pioneer (born 1815)References
ee also
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