1855 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1855 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- 29 January - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister over the management of the Crimean War.
- 5 February - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, becomes Prime Minister.
- 15 May - The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in London.
- 29 June - The Daily Telegraph begins publication.
- 3 September - Last Bartholomew Fair in London.
- 11 September - Sevastapol falls to the British troops.
- 22 December - Metropolitan Board of Works established.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Stamp duty was removed from newspapers creating mass market media in the UK.
- Henry Bessemer patents the Bessemer process for the production of steel.
- James Clerk Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave.
[edit] Births
- 1 May - Marie Corelli, novelist (d. 1924)
[edit] Deaths
- 25 January - Dorothy Wordsworth, poet and diarist (b. 1771)
- 31 March - Charlotte Brontë, author (b. 1816)
- 5 May - Robert Inglis, politician (b. 1786)
- 23 May - Charles Robert Malden explorer (b. 1797)
- 28 June - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788)
- 8 or 9 July - William Edward Parry Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
