1849 in the United Kingdom
- 1849 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1849 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal
Events
* 13 January - Second Anglo-Sikh War: British forces retreat from the Battle of Chillianwala.
* 22 January - Second Anglo-Sikh War: The city of Multan falls to the British East India Company following the Siege of Multan.
* 21 February - Second Anglo-Sikh War: British victory at the Battle of Gujarat.
* 29 March - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
* 21 April - Irish Potato Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.
* 19 May - Irishman William Hamilton arrested after shooting blank shots at Queen Victoria.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]
* 13 December - Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
* December - the "RMS Royal Adelaide (1838)" sinks off Margate with the loss of 250 lives.[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] ]Undated
* The Navigation Acts repealed.[cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|author=William L. R. Cates|year=1863] ]Ongoing
* Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)
Publications
* Serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel "David Copperfield".
Births
* 13 February - Lord Randolph Churchill, statesman (died 1895)
* 24 November - Frances Hodgson Burnett, author (died 1924)
* 29 November - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1945)
Deaths
* 19 February - Bernard Barton, poet (born 1784)
* 22 May - Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767)
* 25 May - Benjamin d'Urban, general and colonial administrator (born 1777)
* 28 May - Anne Brontë, author (born 1820)
* 12 July - Horace Smith, author (born 1779)
* 6 September - Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich (born 1779)
* 2 December - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (born 1792)
* 12 December - Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer (born 1769, France)
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