1853 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1853

1853 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1853 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

  • 20 January – the United Kingdom annexes Lower Burma ending the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
  • 4 February – Halifax Permanent Benefit Building Society takes its first deposits.[1]
  • 14 February – United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Traffic in all Intoxicating Liquors formed in Manchester.
  • 15 February – PS Queen Victoria sinks in a snowstorm at night entering Dublin Bay with the loss of more than 80 lives.
  • 18 February – a treaty is signed with the United States concerning international copyright.[2]
  • 29 March – Manchester is granted city status by letters patent.[3][4]
  • May – the world's first public aquarium is opened in London Zoo.[5]
  • 5 May – Perpetual Maritime Truce comes into force between the United Kingdom and the rulers of the Sheikhdoms of the Lower Gulf, later known as the Trucial States.[6]
  • 6 June – naval fleet travels to Besika Bay to fend off Russian threats to the Ottoman Empire.[7]
  • 25 June – Hochster v De La Tour, a landmark case on anticipatory breach of contract in English contract law, is decided in the Court of Queen's Bench.
  • 1 July – first constitution of the Cape Colony provides for a legislative council.[7]
  • 1 August – under terms of the Vaccination Act 1853, all children born after this date are to receive compulsory vaccination against smallpox during their first 3 months of life, with defaulting parents subject to a fine.[8]
  • 12 August – Licensing (Scotland) Act (known after its sponsor as the 'Forbes Mackenzie Act') regulates the supply of intoxicating beverages in Scotland.[9]
  • 20 August – Penal Servitude Act provides for convicted criminals to serve their entire sentence in prison, rather than suffer transportation, and also to be freed on licence.[10]
  • September (approx.) – first pillar box on the British mainland erected in Carlisle.[11][12]
  • 14 September – West Australian becomes the first horse to win the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.
  • 28 September – emigrant ship Annie Jane sinks in heavy seas off the Scottish island of Vatersay with the loss of 350 lives.[13]
  • 31 October–15 May 1854 – lockout of Preston cotton mill workers seeking reinstatement of ten per cent of their pay; this will be Britain's longest industrial dispute up to this date.[14]
  • 3 December – Crimean War: a protocol is signed with France, Austria, and Prussia for restoring peace between Russia and Turkey.[2]
  • 14 December – Palmerston resigns as Home Secretary over demands for parliamentary reform, but changes his mind on 23 December.[7]
  • 15 December – the Sierra redwood Sequoiadendron giganteum is introduced to England as Wellingtonia by William Lobb.[15]

Undated

Publications

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Baren, Maurice (1996). How It All Began Up the High Street. London: Michael O'Mara Books. p. 58. ISBN 1-85479-667-4.
  2. ^ a b Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
  3. ^ The London Gazette (1 April 1853) 21426:950.
  4. ^ "The City of Manchester". The Guardian. Manchester. 2 April 1853. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  5. ^ Brunner, Bernd (2003). The Ocean at Home. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 99. ISBN 1-56898-502-9.
  6. ^ Lorimer, John (1915). Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Bombay: British Government.
  7. ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 273–274. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  8. ^ "United Kingdom Vaccination Act 1853". Policy Navigator. The Health Foundation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  9. ^ Matthew, H. C. G. (2004). "Mackenzie, William Forbes (1807–1862)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17605. Retrieved 27 June 2011. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  10. ^ "Timeline of capital punishment in Britain". Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  11. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  12. ^ Farrugia, Jean Young (1969). The Letter Box: a history of Post Office pillar and wall boxes. Fontwell: Centaur Press. ISBN 0-900000-14-7.
  13. ^ "Annie Jane". Wreck site. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  14. ^ Leigh, J. S. (2008). Preston Cotton Martyrs: the millworkers who shocked a nation. Lancaster: Carnegie. ISBN 978-1-874181-45-3.
  15. ^ Earle, Christopher J., ed. (15 August 1999). "Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) Buchholz 1939". Gymnosperm Database. University of Hamburg. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  16. ^ "The Skye and Raasay Clearances – 1853". Scotland's History. BBC. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  17. ^ Weller, Shane (1992). Christmas Carols: Complete Verses. p. 19. ISBN 9780486273976. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  18. ^ "Good King Wenceslas". Hymns and Carols of Christmas. 30 September 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  19. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.


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