1856 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1856 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

[edit] 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. ^[1]
• 31 March - The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
• 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.

[edit] Births

• 4 March - Alfred William Rich, watercolour painter and author (d. 1921)
• 8 March - Bramwell Booth, Salvation Army General (d. 1929)
• 12 April - William Martin Conway, art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
• 22 June - Henry Rider Haggard, writer (d. 1925)
• 10 August - William Willett, inventor of daylight saving time (d. 1915)
• 18 December - J.J. Thomson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
• 25 December - Samuel William Knaggs, civil servant in the West Indies (d. 1924)

[edit] Deaths

• 29 August - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Christian writer (b. 1778)
• 30 August - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, writer (b. 1811)

[edit] References