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Events relating to england
The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square
Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade
Daniel O'Connell is convicted of seditious conspiracy and is sentenced to prison
Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
The first great entrepreneur of the railway age, George Hudson, becomes known as the Railway King
Daniel O'Connell is acquitted on appeal and released from prison
In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor
The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London by British drapery assistant George Williams
English naval officer John Franklin sets off with two ships, Erebus and Terror, to search for the Northwest Passage
Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert follow the German custom of a family Christmas tree, immediately making it popular in Britain
British prime minister Robert Peel carries a bill to repeal the Corn Laws, splitting his own party in the process
The minority of Conservatives supporting Peel become a separate faction, henceforth known as the Peelites
Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons
Mary Anne Evans' translation from the German of David Friedrich Strauss's controversial Life of Jesus is published anonymously
With his Conservative party split, Peel's government falls and Lord John Russell becomes British prime minister at the head of a Whig administration
Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah has its premiere in England, in the city of Birmingham
After marrying secretly, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett go abroad to live in Florence
The three Brontë sisters jointly publish a volume of their poems and sell just two copies
A new Factory Act is passed in Britain, limiting the working day of women and children to a maximum of ten hours
English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848)
At a congress in London Engels persuades a group of radical Germans to adopt the name Communist League
Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre
English mathematician George Boole describes Boolean algebra in his pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic
Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre
