1849 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1849 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 2.2 Ongoing 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal

[edit] 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.
• 13 December - Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
• December - the Royal Adelaide sinks off Margate with the loss of 250 lives.^[1]

[edit] Undated

• The Navigation Acts repealed.^[2]

[edit] Ongoing

• Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)

[edit] Publications

• Serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield.

[edit] Births

• 13 February - Lord Randolph Churchill, statesman (died 1895)
• 29 November - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1945)

[edit] Deaths

• 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)
• 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)

[edit] References