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1835 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1835 English cricket season

Events from the year 1835 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - William IV of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Peel, Tory(until 8 April), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig

Events

• January - General election won by the Whigs, but Robert Peel initially remains in office, at the request of King William IV.^[1]
• April 18 - Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister.
• September 7 - Charles Darwin arrives at Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle.
• 9 September - Municipal Corporations Act streamlines local government in towns and cities.^[1]
• 15 November - Weobley in Herefordshire is the site of the consecration of the first Roman Catholic chapel in England since the Reformation.^[1]

Undated

• Highway Act codifies the laws relating to highways and makes parish surveyors responsible for their upkeep.
• British Geological Survey founded.

Births

• 4 March - John Hughlings Jackson, neurologist (died 1911)
• 3 May - Alfred Austin, poet (died 1913)
• 25 November - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American philanthropist (died 1919, United States)
• 4 December - Samuel Butler, writer (died 1902)

Deaths

• 15 February - Henry Hunt, politician (born 1773)
• 13 May - John Nash, architect (born 1752)
• 18 June - William Cobbett, journalist and author (born 1763)
• 21 November - James Hogg, poet and novelist (born 1770)

References

See also