1838 in the United Kingdom
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 1838 in the United Kingdom: |
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Events from the year 1838 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Events
- May 31 - In Kent, self-declared Messiah John Nichols Thom kills a policeman who was sent to arrest him and flees to Bossenden Wood with 30 followers. Later in the day he dies when he tries to rally his followers to fight soldiers of the 45th Foot regiment
- June 28 - The coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at Westminster Abbey
- 7 September - Grace Darling rescues 9 survivors from the wreck of Forfarshire off the Farne Islands
- Start of First British-Afghan War
- J. M. W. Turner paints The Fighting Temeraire.
[edit] Births
- 6 February - Henry Irving, actor (d. 1905)
- 3 December - Octavia Hill, social reformer (d. 1912)
- 20 December - Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and author (d. 1926)
