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Sport
1852 English cricket season
Events from the year
1852
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Undated
3
Publications
4
Births
5
Deaths
6
References
7
See also
Incumbents
Monarch
-
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister
-
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
,
Liberal
(until
23 February
),
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
,
Conservative
(until
19 December
),
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
,
Peelite
Events
17 January
- United Kingdom recognises the independence of the
Transvaal
.
14 February
- The
Great Ormond Street Hospital
in
London
admits its first patient.
1
21 February
-
Earl Russell
resigns as Prime Minister after his Militia Bill is amended.
2
23 February
-
Earl of Derby
forms a minority
Conservative
government.
2
1 March
-
Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton
appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
.
1 April
- Start of the
Second Burmese War
.
21 June
-
Trial
of
Cardinal
John Henry Newman
for the
defamation
of
Giacinto Achilli
opens in London. Newman was convicted on
25 June
.
3
30 June
- Colony of
New Zealand
granted its first representative government.
2
4 November
-
General election
won by the
Conservative Party
under
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
.
11 November
- New
Palace of Westminster
opens in London.
17 December
- Earl of Derby resigns as Prime Minister, following the defeat of his budget.
2
28 December
-
Earl of Aberdeen
becomes Prime Minister, leading a
Whig
-
Peelite
coalition.
2
Undated
King's Cross Station
opens, the largest in Europe at the time.
2
Publications
Roget's Thesaurus
.
4
Serialisation of
Charles Dickens
' novel
Bleak House
.
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novel
The History of Henry Esmond
.
Births
4 May
-
Alice Liddell
, schoolgirl inspiration for
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(died
1934
)
23 August
-
Arnold Toynbee
, economic historian (died
1883
)
12 September
-
Herbert Henry Asquith
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(died
1928
)
28 September
-
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
, World War I field marshal (died
1925
)
2 October
-
William Ramsay
, chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (died
1916
)
Deaths
10 February
-
Samuel Prout
, painter (born
1783
)
4 September
-
William MacGillivray
, naturalist and ornithologist (born
1796
)
14 September
-
Augustus Pugin
, architect (born
1812
)
14 September
-
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
, general and
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(born
1769
)
21 November
-
Mary Berry
, writer (born
1763
)
27 November
-
Augusta Lovelace
, early computer pioneer (born
1815
)
References
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
, Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN 0-141-02715-0
.
^
a
b
c
d
e
f
Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 272-273.
ISBN 0-7126-5616-2
.
^
Ward, W. (1912).
Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman
(2 vols. ed.). London: Longmans, Green and Co. pp.
Chapter 10: The Achilli Trial
,
p.
291.
^
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