1848 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1848 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal

Events

* 24 February - Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe abdicates and escapes to England.
* 10 April - Chartist rally held in Kennington Park London, headed by Feargus O'Connor. A petition demanding the franchise is presented to Parliament.
* 11 July - London Waterloo station opens.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* July - Public Health Act 1848 establishes the Boards of Health.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 269-270|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 26 July - Matale Rebellion against British rule in Sri Lanka.
* 29 July - Uprising in County Tipperary, Ireland.
* 16 September - William Lassell independently co-discovers Hyperion, one of the moons of Saturn. ["Discovery of new satellite of Saturn", Lassell, W., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, p.195, 1848]
* October - First direct train route from London to Edinburgh opens.
* 1 November - First W H Smith bookstall at a railway station opens, at Euston Station, in London.

Undated

* Queen's College, London founded.
* John Bird Sumner becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
* British, Dutch and German governments lay claim to New Guinea.
* Huddersfield workhouse scandal (1848)

Ongoing events

* Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)

Publications

* "The Communist Manifesto" by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.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]
* Anne Brontë's novel "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall".
* Charles Dickens' novel "The Haunted Man".
* Elizabeth Gaskell publishes "Mary Barton" anonymously.
* Serialisation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel "Pendennis".

Births

* 27 February - Hubert Parry, composer (died 1918)
* 3 March - Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
* 18 March - Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (died 1939)
* 31 March - William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, financier and statesman (died 1919)
* 7 April - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1930)
* 18 July - W. G. Grace, cricketer (died 1915)
* 25 July
** George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian writer (died 1881)
** Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
* 2 December - Mary Slessor, missionary (died 1915)

Deaths

* 19 January - Isaac D'Israeli, author (born 1766)
* 3 August - Edward Baines, newspaperman and politician (born 1774)
* 12 August - George Stephenson, locomotive pioneer (born 1781)
* 23 November - Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, statesman (born 1764)
* 24 November - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1779)
* 19 December - Emily Brontë, author (born 1818)

References

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