1843 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1843 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch — Queen Victoria
- Prime Minister — Robert Peel, Conservative
[edit] Events
- 6 January — Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island.
- 20 January — Daniel M'Naghten shoots and kills the Prime Minister's private secretary, Edward Drummond, in Whitehall.[1]
- 4 March — M'Naghten is found not guilty of murder "by reason of insanity", giving rise to the M'Naghten Rules on criminal responsibility, and subsequently committed to Bethlem Hospital.[1]
- 25 March — Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames, is opened.[2]
- 27 March — Decision in Foss v Harbottle, a leading precedent in English corporate law, declares that in any action in which a wrong is alleged to have been done to a company, the proper claimant is the company itself and not individual shareholders.[3]
- 4 May — Gambia and Natal proclaimed British colonies.[4]
- 18 May — The Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place in Edinburgh.
- 19 July — Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol.[5]
- September — The Economist newspaper first published.
- 1 October — News of the World newspaper first published.[2] It will survive until 2011.
- 3 November–4 November — The statue of Nelson placed atop Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.[2]
- 13 December — Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.[4]
- December — The world's first Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London from the artist John Callcott Horsley, are sent.[6]
[edit] Undated
- Theatres Act ends the virtual monopoly on theatrical performances held by the patent theatres, encouraging the development of popular entertainment.[4]
- Protestant Martyrs' Memorial erected in Oxford.[7]
[edit] Publications
- Charles Dickens's novels A Christmas Carol (19 December) and Martin Chuzzlewit (begins serialisation January).
- John Stuart Mill’s book A System of Logic.
- John Ruskin's book Modern Painters, vol. 1.
- William Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, the first photographic book.[8]
[edit] Births
- 25 April — Princess Alice, member of the royal family (died 1878)
- 30 June — Ernest Satow, diplomat and scholar (died 1929)
[edit] Deaths
- 9 January — William Hedley, inventor and locomotive engineer (born 1779)
- 21 March — Robert Southey, poet (born 1774)
- 25 March — Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (born 1813)
- 21 April — Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (born 1773)
- 1 June — William Abbot, actor (born 1798)
- 25 July — Charles Macintosh, chemist (born 1766)
- 18 December — Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, Governor-General of India (born 1748)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Moran, Richard (2004). "McNaughtan, Daniel (1802/3–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39433. Retrieved 2011-02-02.subscription or UK public library membership required
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Slapper, Gary (2008-06-19). "The cases that changed Britain: 1785-1869". The Times. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4159194.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 266–267. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Royal Visit". The Bristol Mirror: pp. 1–2. 20 July 1843.
- ^ Buday, György (1992). "The history of the Christmas card". Omnigraphics: 8.
- ^ Lewis, Darcy (2006). "Timeline: Oxford". TimeTravel-Britain.com. http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/towns/oxtime.shtml. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
