1843 in the United Kingdom
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1843 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1843 English cricket season

Events from the year 1843 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Peel, Conservative

Events

• 6 January - Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island.
• 25 March - The Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames, is opened.^[1]
• 4 May - Gambia and Natal proclaimed British colonies.^[2]
• 18 May - The Disruption of the Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh.
• 19 July - The SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol.
• 1 October - News of the World first published.^[1]
• 3 November–4 November - The statue of Nelson placed atop Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.^[1]
• 13 December - Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.^[2]
• 19 December - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Undated

• The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
• Theatres Act 1843 end the virtual monopoly on theatrical performances held by the patent theatres, encouraging the development of popular entertainment.^[2]

Publications

• Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol and the serialised novel Martin Chuzzlewit.
• William Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, the first photographic book.^[3]
• The Economist magazine is first published.

Births

• 25 April - Alice of the United Kingdom, member of the royal family (died 1878)
• 30 June - Ernest Satow, diplomat and scholar (died 1929)

Deaths

• 9 January - William Hedley, inventor and locomotive engineer (born 1779)
• 21 March - Robert Southey, poet (born 1774)
• 25 March - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (born 1813)
• 21 April - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (born 1773)
• 1 June - William Abbot, actor (born 1798)
• 25 July - Charles Macintosh, chemist (born 1766)
• 18 December - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, Governor-General of India (born 1748)

References

See also