1845 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1845 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Peel, Conservative

Events

* 7 February - In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase which takes months to repair. [cite web|url=http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/feb/7.htm|title=Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, February 7th|accessdate=2008-05-23]
* 11 March - Flagstaff War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke lead 700 Māoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka, now known as Russell.
* 17 March - Stephen Perry patents the rubber band.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 1 May - First cricket match to be played at the Kennington Oval.
* 9 August - Aberdeen Act instructing the Royal Navy to counter the Brazilian slave trade, signed.
* 9 September - Potato blight begins in Ireland.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 267-268|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 9 October - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
* 22 December–23 December - First Anglo-Sikh War: British forces defeat Sikhs at Battle of Ferozeshah in Punjab.cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|author=William L. R. Cates|year=1863]
* 30 December - Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork and Galway are incorporated in Ireland.

Undated

* Beginning of the Irish Potato Famine.
* John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage mysteriously disappears. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 |pages=549]
* First University Boat Race to use the present Putney to Mortlake course (albeit in the reverse direction to that used today).

Publications

* Charles Dickens' novella "The Cricket on the Hearth".

Births

* 14 February - Quintin Hogg, philanthropist (died 1903)
* 4 July - Thomas John Barnardo, philanthropist (died 1905)
* 9 July - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, politician (died 1914)

Deaths

* 17 July - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1764)
* 12 October - Elizabeth Fry, humanitarian (born 1780)

References

ee also