1834 in the United Kingdom

1834 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1834 English cricket season

Events from the year 1834 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - William IV of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Tory (until 16 July), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig (until 14 November), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Tory, (until 9 December), Robert Peel, Whig

[edit] Events

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) by J. M. W. Turner. Turner witnessed the fire (16 October), and painted the subject several times.

• 18 March - The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset farm labourers, are sentenced to be transported to a penal colony for forming a trade union.^[1]
• 16 July - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1 August - Slavery abolished in the British Empire (see Slavery Abolition Act).^[1]
• 14 August - Poor Law Amendment Act states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse.
• 15 August - Parliament approves the creation of the colony of South Australia.^[2]
• 16 October - Much of the Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire.
• 14 November - William IV dismisses the government of Melbourne, after proposals for Church reform are made. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington forms a caretaker government.
• 10 December - Sir Robert Peel forms his first government.
• 17 December - Tamworth Manifesto: Peel outlines his guiding principles of government.^[2]
• 23 December - Inventor Joseph Hansom patents the Hansom cab.^[1]

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• Last hanging in chains upon a gibbet in England, James Cook, for murder.
• British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended.
• The Exchequer was abolished as a revenue collecting department of the British government.
• Harrods founded as a grocer in Stepney in the East End of London.^[3]
• Charles Babbage designs an 'analytical engine', or mechanical computer, although this is never built.^[2]
• First hansom cabs appear on London streets.^[2]

[edit] Births

• 28 January - Sabine Baring-Gould, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar (died 1924)
• 15 February - William Henry Preece, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1913)
• 19 February - Charles Davis Lucas, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1914)
• 16 March - James Hector, geologist (died 1907)
• 24 March - William Morris, artist, writer, socialist and activist (died 1896)
• 19 June - Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher (died 1892)
• 4 August - John Venn, mathematician (died 1923)
• 9 September - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, novelist (died 1903)

[edit] Deaths

• 12 January - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1759)
• 11 April - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (born 1757)
• 12 July - David Douglas, botanist (born 1799)
• 25 July - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (born 1772)
• 1 August - Robert Morrison, Protestant missionary to China (born 1782)
• 2 September - Thomas Telford, engineer (born 1757)
• 16 September - William Blackwood, writer (born 1776)
• 11 October - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Navy officer, politician and diplomat (born 1786)
• 5 December - Thomas Pringle, poet (born 1789)
• 23 December - Thomas Malthus, demographer and economist (born 1766)
• 27 December - Charles Lamb, essayist (born 1775)

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