1855 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1855 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch – Victoria
Prime Minister – The Earl of Aberdeen (Peelite) (until 30 January), The Viscount Palmerston (Liberal) (starting 30 January)

Events

9 January — The Earl of Aberdeen loses a vote of no confidence against his government over the management of the Crimean War.
22 January — French political exile Emmanuel Barthélemy is hanged after being convicted of murdering a London man. Barthélemy had previously killed a fellow Frenchman in the last fatal duel in England, but has only been convicted of manslaughter on that occasion.
29 January — Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister.
5 February — Viscount Palmerston becomes Prime Minister.
8 February — The Devil's Footprints, a series of mysteriously hoof-like marks, appear in the snow in Devon and continue throughout the countryside for over 100 miles (160 km).
11 April — The first pillar boxes are installed in London, at the suggestion of Rowland Hill.^[1]
15 May — Great Gold Robbery from a train between London Bridge and Folkestone.^[2]
15 June — Stamp duty is removed from newspapers creating mass market media in the UK.^[3]
29 June — The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication in London.^[1]
16 July — Australian Colonies granted self-governing status.^[3]
31 July — Limited Liability Act protects investors in the event of corporate collapse.^[3]
3 September — Last Bartholomew Fair in London.^[4]
9 September — Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) (Crimean War): Sevastapol falls to the British and their allies.
17 October — Henry Bessemer files his patent for the Bessemer process for the production of steel.^[5]
17 November — Explorer David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls in Africa.^[1]
22 December — Metropolitan Board of Works established in London.

Undated

James Clerk Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave.
The London School of Jewish Studies opens as the Jews' College, a rabbinical seminary, in London.
Last minting of the fourpence coin (groat) for use in the U.K.

Publications

Samuel Orchart Beeton's weekly The Boys' Own Magazine (begins publication January).
Mrs Archer Clive's novel Paul Ferroll.^[6]
Serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel Little Dorrit.
Mrs Gaskell's novel North and South.
Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho!^[3]
William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes.
Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden.^[3]
The Ancient Music of Ireland, including the first published version of the Londonderry Air.

Births

21 January — Henry B. Jackson, admiral (died 1929).
1 May — Marie Corelli, novelist (died 1924).
23 May — Isabella Ford, socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (died 1924).
2 June — Archibald Berkeley Milne, admiral (died 1938).
28 August — Alexander Bethell, admiral (died 1932).
17 December — Frank Hedges Butler, wine merchant and founding member of the Aero Club of Great Britain (died 1928).

Deaths

3 January — Julius Charles Hare, theological writer (born 1795).
10 January — Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist (born 1787).
25 January — Dorothy Wordsworth, poet and diarist (born 1771).
20 February — Joseph Hume, doctor and politician (born 1777).
27 February — Bryan Donkin, engineer and inventor (born 1768).
31 March — Charlotte Brontë, author (born 1816).
5 May — Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1786).
23 May — Charles Robert Malden, explorer (born 1797).
28 June — Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (born 1788).
8 or 9 July — William Edward Parry, Arctic explorer (born 1790).
30 August — Feargus O'Connor, political radical and Chartist leader (born 1794 in Ireland).

References

1 2 3 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Hanrahan, David C. (2011). The First Great Train Robbery. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-9040-3.
1 2 3 4 5 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 274–276. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Cavendish, Richard (2005). "London's Last Bartholomew Fair: September 3rd, 1855". History Today. 55 (9): 52.
↑ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions. London: British Library. pp. 30–1. ISBN 0-7123-0881-4.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

Years in the United Kingdom

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1855 in Europe

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