1842 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1842 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- 31 March - Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line opened up to Werneth.
- 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.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Massacre of Elphinstone's British army on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed Khan
- British Empire annexes Hong Kong.
- Income Tax Act 1842 passed; 7 pence on the pound sterling, for incomes over 150 pounds.
- Pentonville Prison built.
[edit] Births
- 13 May - Arthur Sullivan, composer (d. 1900)
- 23 August - Osborne Reynolds, engineer and physicist (d. 1912)
- 12 November - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 2 December - C. W. Alcock, footballer and football official (d. 1907)
[edit] Deaths
- 13 March - Henry Shrapnel, soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Thomas Henry Lister, novelist (b. 1800)
