21 April–23 November –
Chopin visits London and Scotland, his last public appearance on a concert platform being on 16 November at the
Guildhall, London.[2]
30 May – The
Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment and Loan Association is established at
Hatton Garden in London to provide loans to professional and working people.[3]
22 November 1848 -
Battle of Ramnagar.
Lord Gough makes some strategical blunders. British cavalry repulsed with heavy losses. Resulting in a Sikh victory.[9]
23 December – A picture of the royal family gathered around a
Christmas tree at
Windsor Castle appears on the cover of The Illustrated London News (special Christmas supplement), popularising the custom of the tree in Britain.
^Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6 – Scotland: the Lowlands and Borders. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
ISBN0-7153-5408-6.
^Williams, Thomas J. (1950). Priscilla Lydia Sellon: the restorer, after three centuries, of the religious life in the English Church. London:
SPCK.
^Mumm, Susan (1999). Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain. Leicester University Press. pp. 6–9.
ISBN0-7185-0151-9.
21 April–23 November –
Chopin visits London and Scotland, his last public appearance on a concert platform being on 16 November at the
Guildhall, London.[2]
30 May – The
Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment and Loan Association is established at
Hatton Garden in London to provide loans to professional and working people.[3]
22 November 1848 -
Battle of Ramnagar.
Lord Gough makes some strategical blunders. British cavalry repulsed with heavy losses. Resulting in a Sikh victory.[9]
23 December – A picture of the royal family gathered around a
Christmas tree at
Windsor Castle appears on the cover of The Illustrated London News (special Christmas supplement), popularising the custom of the tree in Britain.
^Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6 – Scotland: the Lowlands and Borders. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
ISBN0-7153-5408-6.
^Williams, Thomas J. (1950). Priscilla Lydia Sellon: the restorer, after three centuries, of the religious life in the English Church. London:
SPCK.
^Mumm, Susan (1999). Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain. Leicester University Press. pp. 6–9.
ISBN0-7185-0151-9.