From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UK-related events during the year of 1838
Events from the year 1838 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
10 January – a fire destroys
Lloyd's Coffee House and the
Royal Exchange in
London .
[1]
20 January – with a daily average of −11.9 °C (10.6 °F), this day sees the coldest daily
Central England temperature value on record.
[2]
4–22 April – the
paddle steamer
SS Sirius (1837) makes the
Transatlantic Crossing to
New York from
Cork in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.
[3]
8–23 April –
Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's paddle steamer
SS Great Western (completed on 31 March) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from
Avonmouth in fifteen days, inaugurating a regular steamship service.
[4]
8 April – the
National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by
William Wilkins in
Trafalgar Square , London.
9 May –
Royal Agricultural Society of England founded.
21 May –
Chartism : The People's Charter is launched by members of the
London Working Men's Association at a mass meeting on
Glasgow Green calling for
universal suffrage for male voters.
[4]
[5]
31 May –
Battle of Bossenden Wood : In
Kent , self-declared Messiah
John N. Thom , calling himself "Sir William Courtenay", and a band of around 35 agricultural labourers are surrounded by soldiers of the
45th Regiment of Foot sent to arrest them following the earlier murder of a policeman. Thom and ten followers, together with an officer and a constable, are killed in what is sometimes described as the last battle on English soil.
[6]
4 June – first section of the
Great Western Railway , engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens from
London Paddington station to
Maidenhead .
[7]
18 June – the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway opens, the first line across England.
[8]
28 June – The
Coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at
Westminster Abbey .
[9]
Lord Melbourne denies her the traditional medieval banquet due to budget constraints and critics refer to it as "The Penny Crowning".
[10] The
Imperial State Crown is remade for her.
July –
Chichester Theological College is founded by Bishop
William Otter in West Sussex as the first such college of the
Anglican Communion in
England .
4 August – the Court Journal prints a rumour that
Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is going to host a great jousting
tournament at his castle in
Scotland . A few weeks later he confirms this.
[11]
6 August – the
Polytechnic Institution , Britain's first
polytechnic , opens in
Regent Street , London.
[12]
16 August – the
Tin Duties Act ends taxation of the mines of
Devon and
Cornwall .
September – the
Tolpuddle Martyrs return to England.
[13]
7 September –
Grace Darling rescues nine survivors from the wreck of the paddle steamer
SS Forfarshire (1834) off the
Farne Islands .
[9]
17 September – opening of the
London and Birmingham Railway throughout, the first trunk line in England.
[13]
[14]
18 September –
Anti-Corn Law League founded by
Richard Cobden and
John Bright in
Manchester .
[9]
24 September – "Monster meeting" on
Kersal Moor ,
Salford , in support of
Chartism .
1 October –
First Anglo-Afghan War begins when
Lord Auckland ,
Governor-General of India , issues a manifesto from
Simla giving Britain's reasons for intervening in
Afghanistan .
[13]
Undated
Ongoing
Publications
Births
6 February –
Henry Irving , actor (died 1905)
9 February –
Evelyn Wood , field marshal, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1919)
12 March –
William Henry Perkin , chemist (died 1907)
13 April –
J. D. Sedding , ecclesiastical architect (died 1891)
14 April –
John Thomas , Welsh photographer (died 1905)
20 July –
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , statesman and historian (died 1928)
30 September –
Emily Soldene , comic opera singer-manager and gossip columnist (died 1912)
25 October –
Annie Hall Cudlip , novelist, journalist and editor (died 1918)
3 December –
Octavia Hill , social reformer (died 1912)
20 December –
Edwin Abbott Abbott , theologian and author (died 1926)
Deaths
13 January –
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1751)
5 February –
Thomas Creevey , politician (born 1768)
17 February –
John Bonham-Carter , politician and barrister (born 1788)
4 March
19 March – Sir
Edward Barnes , British Army officer and governor of
Ceylon (born 1776)
21 March –
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie , colonial Governor (born 1770)
24 March –
Thomas Attwood , composer (born 1765)
11 May –
Thomas Andrew Knight , horticulturalist (born 1759)
19 May –
Richard Colt Hoare , antiquarian, artist, traveller and archaeologist (born 1758)
20 May –
William Stephenson , Geordie printer, publisher, auctioneer, poet and songwriter (born 1797)
19 July –
Christmas Evans , Welsh Nonconformist minister (born 1766)
25 August –
William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley , noble and Member of Parliament (born 1772)
18 September –
Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington , Member of Parliament (born 1752)
15 October –
Letitia Elizabeth Landon , poet and novelist (born 1802)
7 November –
Anne Grant , Scottish poet and author (born 1755)
16 November –
Robert Cutlar Fergusson , lawyer and politician (born 1768)
10 December –
Augustus Earle , painter (born 1793)
22 December –
John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon , Member of Parliament (born 1757)
References
^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia . Macmillan. p. 287.
ISBN
0-333-57688-8 .
^
CET Record-Breakers.
^
"Steamship Curaçao" .
Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2011 .
^
a
b
"Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840" . Archived from
the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007 .
^
"Where History Happened: Chartism" . History Extra .
BBC . 12 May 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2014 .
^
"Battle of Bosenden Wood" . Hernhill Parish. Retrieved 26 October 2011 .
^ MacDermot, E. T. (1964). History of the Great Western Railway . London: Ian Allan.
^ Whittle, G. (1979). The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway . Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
ISBN
0-7153-7855-4 .
^
a
b
c Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
Anstruther, Ian (1963). The Knight and the Umbrella: an Account of the Eglinton Tournament – 1839 . London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd. p. 1.
^
Girouard, Mark (1981). The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman . Yale University Press. p. 92.
^
"University of Westminster" . London: Beginnings Project. Archived from
the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2011 .
^
a
b
c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 262–263.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Reed, M. C. (1996). The London & North Western Railway: a history . Penryn: Atlantic.
ISBN
0-906899-66-4 .
^
"A Very Peculiar Preacher: James Banyard" . Rochford District Community Archive . Retrieved 7 November 2020 .
^
Creighton, Charles (1894).
A History of Epidemics in Britain . Vol. II. Cambridge University Press.