1843 in the United Kingdom

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1843 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1843 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 4 May - Natal proclaimed a British colony.
• 18 May - The Disruption of the Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh.
• 19 July - The SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol.
• December 19 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

• The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
• The Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames, is finished.
• The Economist is first published.
• William Fox Talbot publishes The Pencil of Nature, the first photographic book. ^[1]

[edit] Births

• 30 June - Ernest Satow, diplomat and scholar (d. 1929)

[edit] Deaths

• 21 March - Robert Southey, poet (b. 1774)
• 25 March - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (b. 1813)
• 21 April - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (b. 1773)
• 18 December - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, Governor-General of India (b. 1748)
• William Abbot, actor (b. 1798)

[edit] References