1841 in the United Kingdom

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1841 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 25 January - Charles Elliot and Qishan of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh. A navy official Edward Belcher led a fleet to land Hong Kong.
• 26 January - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong.
• February - William Fox Talbot obtains a patent for the calotype process in photography. ^[1]
• 24 September - United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
• 13 November - Physician James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
• 23 December - First Anglo-Afghan War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is torn to pieces.

• Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham.

[edit] Births

• 25 January - Jackie Fisher, admiral (d. 1920)
• 28 January - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
• 9 November - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
• William George Aston, consular official (d. 1911)

[edit] Deaths

• 20 May - Joseph Blanco White, theologian (b. 1775)
• 1 June - David Wilkie, artist (b. 1785)
• 24 August - Theodore Edward Hook, author (b. 1788)
• 23 December - William Hay Macnaghten, Anglo-Indian diplomat (b. 1793)

[edit] References