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United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1835
Events from the year 1835 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
6 January–6 February –
general election won by the
Whigs , but
Robert Peel initially remains in office, at the request of
King William IV .
[1]
2 March – opening of
Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal from
Nantwich to
Autherley Junction ,
Wolverhampton , the last major trunk narrow canal to be built and the final work of
Thomas Telford (died 1834).
[2]
23 March –
Marie Tussaud moves her
wax museum ,
Madame Tussauds , to a permanent location in
Baker Street , London.
[3]
18 April –
Lord Melbourne succeeds Peel as
Prime Minister .
1 May –
Charles Chubb granted a
patent for a burglar-resistant
safe .
[4]
18 June – an underground
explosion at
Wallsend Colliery kills 102.
[5]
14 July – organisation of the universal
Catholic Apostolic Church .
August –
Henry Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known
photographic negatives at
Lacock Abbey in
Wiltshire .
[6]
25 August –
Independent Order of Rechabites founded as the
Salford Unity of Rechabites as part of the
temperance movement .
31 August –
Acts of Parliament passed:
Marriage Act prohibits marriage with a deceased wife's sister, although validating all existing such marriages.
Highway Act codifies the laws relating to
highways , removes liability to statutory labour and makes parish surveyors responsible for upkeep of roads.
[7]
Great Western Railway incorporated.
[8]
7 September –
Charles Darwin arrives at the
Galapagos Islands aboard
HMS Beagle .
9 September –
Municipal Corporations Act modernises local government in towns and cities
[1] and gives the new authorities power to appoint
police .
[9]
10 September – the
Cruelty to Animals Act extends protection of domesticated animals from maltreatment, including outright prohibition on
bear-baiting and
cockfighting in
England and Wales .
[10]
15 November –
Weobley in
Herefordshire is the site of the
consecration of the first
Roman Catholic chapel in England since the
Reformation .
[1]
27 November – two men,
James Pratt and John Smith , are
hanged in front of
Newgate Prison in London after a conviction of
buggery . They are the last to suffer capital punishment for
homosexual acts in England.
[11]
Undated
Births
3 January –
Fanny Cornforth , born Sarah Cox, artists' model (died
1909 )
15 January –
Arthur Pember , first president of The Football Association (died
1886 in the United States )
4 April –
John Hughlings Jackson , neurologist (died
1911 )
3 May –
Alfred Austin , poet (died
1913 )
27 May –
Emily Faithfull , women's rights activist (died
1895 )
6 July –
George White , field marshal (died
1912 )
17 July –
Thomas Erskine Holland , academic lawyer (died
1926 )
27 August –
Thomas Burberry , businessman and inventor (died 1926)
1 September –
William Stanley Jevons , economist (died
1882 )
4 October –
Mary Elizabeth Braddon , novelist (died
1915 )
25 November –
Andrew Carnegie , Scottish-American steel magnate and philanthropist (died
1919 in the United States )
4 December –
Samuel Butler , novelist and poet (died
1902 )
28 December –
Archibald Geikie , Scottish-born geologist (died
1924 )
Deaths
13 February –
Henry Hunt , orator and radical politician (born
1773 )
30 March –
Richard Sharp , politician, merchant, critic, poet, conversationalist and wit (born 1759 in Newfoundland)
17 April –
William Henry Ireland , poet and forger of Shakespeariana (born
1775 )
13 May –
John Nash , architect (born
1752 )
16 May –
Felicia Hemans , poet (born
1793 )
18 June –
William Cobbett , journalist and author (born
1763 )
28 June –
Charles Mathews , comic actor and theatre manager (born
1776 in Great Britain )
5 July –
Sir Edward Banks , civil engineering contractor (born
1770 )
23 August –
Isaac Pocock , dramatist (born
1782 )
29 August –
Nathaniel William Peach , politician (born
1785 )
30 August –
William T. Barry , United States Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835 (born
1784 in the United States )
14 September –
John Brinkley , astronomer (born
1763 )
1 November –
William Motherwell , Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist (born
1797 )
19 November –
Thomas Linley the elder , bass singer and founder of a musical dynasty (born
1733 )
21 November –
James Hogg , the "Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist (born
1770 )
1 December –
Charles Hayter , painter (born
1761 )
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ISBN
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^
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