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Events from the year
1842
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Undated
3
Births
4
Deaths
5
References
6
See also
Incumbents
Monarch
-
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister
-
Robert Peel
,
Conservative
Events
6 January
–
13 January
:
First Anglo-Afghan War
Massacre of Elphinstone's army
by Afghan forces.
Battle of Gandamak
ends in victory for the Afghans.
31 March
-
Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway
line opened up to
Werneth
.
13 April
- First Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the
Battle of Jellalabad
.
11 May
-
Income Tax Act 1842
establishes the first peacetime
income tax
in Britain; 7
pence
on the
pound
, for incomes over 150 pounds.
[1]
4 June
- In
South Africa
, hunter
Dick King
rides into British military base in
Grahamstown
to warn that
Boers
have besieged
Durban
. He had left 11 days earlier. British army dispatches a relief force.
19 June
- Army suppresses
Rebecca Rioters
in
Carmathen
, protesting against
turnpike
tolls.
[1]
August-October - First Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the
Battle of Kabul
.
August -
Mines Act 1842
prohibits women and children under ten from working in mines.
[1]
7 August
to
27 August
- Riots in and around
Lancashire
, protesting against
Corn Laws
, and in favour of
Chartists
.
[1]
9 August
- The United Kingdom and
United States
sign the
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
agreeing the border between the United States and
Canada
.
[2]
29 August
- Britain and
China
sign the
Treaty of Nanking
ending the
First Opium War
.
[3]
Hong Kong
is ceded to Britain.
Undated
Massacre of
Elphinstone
's British army on the road from
Kabul
to
Jalalabad
,
Afghanistan
, by
Akbar Khan
, son of
Dost Mohammed Khan
Pentonville
Prison built.
Edwin Chadwick
produces a report exposing the low living standards of the urban poor.
[3]
Antarctic
explorer
James Clark Ross
charts the eastern side of
James Ross Island
.
Births
13 May
-
Arthur Sullivan
, composer (died
1900
)
23 August
-
Osborne Reynolds
, engineer and physicist (died
1912
)
20 September
-
James Dewar
, chemist and physicist (died
1923
)
12 November
-
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
, physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (died
1919
)
2 December
-
C. W. Alcock
, footballer and football official (died
1907
)
Deaths
13 March
-
Henry Shrapnel
, soldier and inventor (born
1761
)
5 June
-
Thomas Henry Lister
, novelist (born
1800
)
12 June
-
Thomas Arnold
, historian and schoolmaster (born
1795
)
References
^
a
b
c
d
Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd, 264-266.
ISBN 0-7126-5616-2
.
^
(2006)
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library.
ISBN 0-141-02715-0
.
^
a
b
"
Icons, a portrait of England 1840-1860
". Retrieved on
2007
-
09-13
.
See also
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