Events
- 6 January — Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island.
- 20 January — Daniel M'Naghten shoots and kills the Prime Minister's private secretary, Edward Drummond, in Whitehall.
- 4 March — M'Naghten is found not guilty of murder "by reason of insanity", giving rise to the M'Naghten Rules on criminal responsibility, and subsequently committed to Bethlem Hospital.
- 24 March — Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Emirs, securing Sindh province for the British Raj.
- 25 March — Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames, is opened.
- 27 March — Decision in Foss v Harbottle, a leading precedent in English corporate law, declares that in any action in which a wrong is alleged to have been done to a company, the proper claimant is the company itself and not individual shareholders.
- 4 May — Gambia and Natal proclaimed British colonies.
- 18 May — The Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place in Edinburgh.
- 19 July — Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol.
- September — The Economist newspaper first published.
- 1 October — News of the World newspaper first published. It will survive until 2011.
- 3 November–4 November — The statue of Nelson placed atop Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
- 13 December — Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.
- December — The world's first Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London from the artist John Callcott Horsley, are sent.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)