21 April –
Great Famine (Ireland): 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. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of
cholera.[2]
9 August – "The Bermondsey Horror":
Marie Manning and her husband, Frederick, murder her lover Patrick O'Connor in London. On 13 November they are
hanged together publicly before a large crowd by
William Calcraft outside
Horsemonger Lane Gaol for the crime.[5]
^Willey, Basil (1956). "J. A. Froude". More Nineteenth Century Studies: a Group of Honest Doubters. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 131.
^Ashton, Rosemary (1989). "Doubting Clerics: From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot". In Jasper & Wright (ed.). The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe. New York: St. Martins. p. 76.
21 April –
Great Famine (Ireland): 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. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of
cholera.[2]
9 August – "The Bermondsey Horror":
Marie Manning and her husband, Frederick, murder her lover Patrick O'Connor in London. On 13 November they are
hanged together publicly before a large crowd by
William Calcraft outside
Horsemonger Lane Gaol for the crime.[5]
^Willey, Basil (1956). "J. A. Froude". More Nineteenth Century Studies: a Group of Honest Doubters. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 131.
^Ashton, Rosemary (1989). "Doubting Clerics: From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot". In Jasper & Wright (ed.). The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe. New York: St. Martins. p. 76.