1841 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig (until 30 August), Robert Peel, Conservative

Events

* 25 January - Charles Elliot and Qishan of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh. A navy official Edward Belcher led a fleet to land Hong Kong.vague
* 26 January - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong.
* 27 January - Discovery of Mount Erebus in Antarctica by James Clark Ross.
* 28 January - James Clark Ross discovers the Ross Ice Shelf.
* February - William Fox Talbot obtains a patent for the calotype process in photography. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]
* 3 May - New Zealand becomes a British colony.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 5 July - Thomas Cook arranges the first railway excursion.
* 17 July - First edition of "Punch Magazine" published. [cite book|title=The History of "Punch"|author=Marion Harry Spielmann|year=1895|pages=27]
* 28 August - Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 264-266|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 24 September - United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
* 30 October - a fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage. [cite book |title=The London Encyclopaedia|author=Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert|publisher= Macmillan|year= 1995|isbn =0-333-57688-8|pages=287]
* 12 November - First publication of "The Jewish Chronicle", the first Jewish newspaper in the UK.
* 13 November - Physician James Braid first sees a demonstration of "animal magnetism", which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls "hypnosis".
* 23 December - First Anglo-Afghan War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is torn to pieces.

Undated

* Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew first opens to the public.
* Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham.
* Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror.
* London Library founded in Pall Mall.

Ongoing events

* First Opium War (1839–1842)
* First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)

Publications

* Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel "".

Births

* 25 January - Jackie Fisher, admiral (died 1920)
* 28 January - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (died 1904)
* 9 November - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)
* William George Aston, consular official (died 1911)

Deaths

* 2 February - Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (born 1774)
* 12 February - Astley Cooper, surgeon and anatomist (born 1768)
* 20 May - Joseph Blanco White, theologian (born 1775)
* 1 June - David Wilkie, artist (born 1785)
* 24 August - Theodore Edward Hook, author (born 1788)
* 1 December - George Birkbeck, doctor, academic and philanthropist (born 1776)
* 23 December - William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (born 1793)

References

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