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1849 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851

Sport

1849 English cricket season

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.
• 19 May - Irishman William Hamilton arrested after shooting blank shots at Queen Victoria.¹
• 13 December - Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
• December - the RMS Royal Adelaide (1838) sinks off Margate with the loss of 250 lives.²

Undated

• The Navigation Acts repealed.³

Ongoing

• Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)

Publications

• Serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield.

Births

• 13 February - Lord Randolph Churchill, statesman (died 1895)
• 24 November - Frances Hodgson Burnett, author (died 1924)
• 29 November - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1945)

Deaths

• 19 February - Bernard Barton, poet (born 1784)
• 22 May - Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767)
• 25 May - Benjamin d'Urban, general and colonial administrator (born 1777)
• 28 May - Anne Brontë, author (born 1820)
• 12 July - Horace Smith, author (born 1779)
• 6 September - Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich (born 1779)
• 2 December - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (born 1792)
• 12 December - Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer (born 1769, France)

References

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