1856 in the United Kingdom
- 1856 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1856 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal
Events
*January - The Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", is composed by James James with lyrics by his father Evan James.
* 29 January - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
* 5 March - Fire destroys Covent Garden Theatre in London.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]
* 31 March - The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
* 9 July - Natal becomes a Crown Colony.[cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 276-277|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2] ]
* 3 September - the Royal British Bank collapses with debts in excess of £500,000.
* 8 October - The Second Opium War between several western powers, including the United Kingdom, and China begins with the "Arrow Incident" on the Pearl River.
* 1 November - Anglo-Persian War: War is declared between Britain and Persia.
* 9 December - Bushehr surrenders to the British.* National Portrait Gallery in London opened.
Births
* 4 March - Alfred William Rich, watercolour painter and author (died 1921)
* 8 March - Bramwell Booth, Salvation Army General (died 1929)
* 12 April - William Martin Conway, art critic and mountaineer (died 1937)
* 22 June - Henry Rider Haggard, writer (died 1925)
* 26 July - George Bernard Shaw, playwright (died 1950)
* 10 August - William Willett, inventor of daylight saving time (died 1915)
* 18 December - J.J. Thomson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
* 25 December - Samuel William Knaggs, civil servant in the West Indies (died 1924)
Deaths
* 17 February - John Braham, opera singer (born 1777)
* 29 August - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Christian writer (born 1778)
* 30 August
** Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, writer (born 1811)
** John Ross, Arctic explorer (born 1777)
References
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