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1849 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1849 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal
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]
Undated
- The Navigation Acts repealed.[2]
Ongoing
- Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)
Births
- 13 February - Lord Randolph Churchill, statesman (d. 1895)
- 29 November - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1945)
Deaths
- 25 May - Benjamin d'Urban, general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
- 28 May - Anne Brontë, author (b. 1820)
- 2 December - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
References
- ^ Icons, a portrait of England 1840-1860. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
- ^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
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