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 | 1835 - The Municipal Corporation Act revolutionizes borough government |
| 1835 - Sir George S. White, Field Marshal in Boer War (defender of Ladysmith) born (d. 1912) |
| 1836 - The People's Charter initiates the first national working-class movement. Chartism demands universal suffrage and vote by ballot. |
| 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, statesman, born (d. 1914) |
| 1836 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal statesman, born (d. 1908) |
| 1837 - William IV, King of Great Britain, died (b. 1765). His death terminates personal union between Great Britain and Hanover. |
| 1837 - Mazzini arrives in London as an exile |
| 1837 - Victoria (1819-1901) becomes Queen of Great Britain |
| 1837 - Benjamin Disraeli delivers his maiden speech in the House of Commons |
| 1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria |
| 1838 - First British-Afghan War began (ended in 1842) |
| 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established in Manchester by Richard Cobden and his friends |
| 1838 - Sir Eveln Wood, first British Sirdar of Egyptian army, Born (d. 1919) |
| 1839 - Treaty of London settles the dispute between the Dutch and their former Belgian subjects |
| 1839 - Outbreak of First Opium War between Britain and China (ended in 1842) |
| 1840 - Queen Victoria of Great Britain marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| 1840 - London Conference on Turko-Egyptian conflict signs the Protocol des Droits; straits closed to warships of all powers, Black Sea to Russian warships |
| 1840 - Sir W.S. Smith, Admiral in Napoleonic wars, died (b. 1755) |
| 1835 - Alfred Austin, poet laureate, born (d. 1913) |
| 1835 - Samuel Butler, novelist and critic born (d. 1902) |
| 1835 - William Cobett, man of letters, died (b. 1762) |
| 1835 - Charles Mathews, comedian, died (b. 1776) |
| 1836 - Sir Walter Besant, novelist, born (d. 1901) |
| 1836 - Sir Francis Burnand, dramatist and editor of "Punch," born (d. 1917) |
| 1836 - W.S. Gilbert, librettist and satirist, born (d. 1911) |
| 1836 - William Godwin, novelist and philosopher, died (b. 1756) |
| 1837 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, best selling novelist, born (d. 1915) |
| 1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, born (d. 1909) |
| 1837 - Sir Charles Wyndham, actor and theatrical manager, born (d. 1919) |
| 1838 - Bulwer-Lytton: "The Lady of Lyons," London, Covent Garden |
| 1838 - Henry Irving, actor, born (d. 1905) |
| 1838 - Thomas Creevey, diarist and gossip, died (b. 1768) |
| 1839 - William De Morgan, novelist, born (d. 1917) |
| 1839 - Ouida (Louise de la Bamee), novelist, born (d. 1908) |
| 1839 - Walter Pater, critic and essayist, born (d. 1894) |
| 1839 - W.M. Praed, poet of light and satirical verse, died (b. 1802) |
| 1840 - Wilfred S. Blunt, poet and traveler, born (d. 1922) |
| 1840 - Rhoda Broughton, novelist, born (d. 1920) |
| 1840 - Fanny Burney novelist ("Evelina"), died (b. 1752) |
| 1840 - Austin Dobson, man of letters, born (d. 1921) |
| 1840 - Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet, born (d. 1928) |
| 1840 - John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist, born (d. 1893) |
| 1837 - John Field, pianist and composer, died (b. 1782) |
| 1835 - Samuel Cost (1814) takes out English patent for his single-barreled pistol and rifle |
| 1835 - "Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire," the earliest negative photograph, taken by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) |
| 1836 - The first cricket match, North versus South, played in London |
| 1837 - Official birth registration introduced |
| 1837 - Mrs. Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, died (b. 1756) |
| 1837 - Isaac Pitman (1813-1897), teacher, publishes his manual, "Stenographic Soundhand" |
| 1837 - Records of the 11-mile 220-yard Crick Run Race at Rugby School, Warwickshire, England, begun |
| 1838 - 703-ton steamer "Sirius" sailed with 100 passengers from London to New York and within a few hours of her arrival, the 1,440-ton steamer "Great Western" arrived after a crossing of 15 days from Bristol. |
| 1838 - Octavia Hill, English housing reformer, born (d. 1912) |
| 1838 - Great Britain had 90 ships of the line in her Navy |
| 1838 - The first traveling post office began; it runs between Birmingham and Liverpool. |
| 1839 - George Cadbury, chocolate manufacturer and social reformer, born (d. 1922) |
| 1839 - Samuel Cunard (1787-1865) starts, with his partners, the British and North-American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (later known as Cunard Line) |
| 1839 - First Grand National run at Aintree, England |
| 1839 - Lady Hester Stanhope, eccentric who settled among the Druses of Lebanon, died (b. 1776) |
| 1839 - W.H. Fox Talbot (1800-1877) claims that he obtained successes with his photographic experiments before Daguerre and communicates the results to the Royal Society |
| 1840 - Beau Brummell (George Bryan Brummell), man of fashion and wit, died (b. 1778) |
| 1840 - Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic awarded to S.S. "Britannia" |
| 1840 - Botanical Gardens at Kew, London, opened |
| 1840 - Transportaton of criminals from England to New South Wales comes to end |
| 1840 - Penny postage established in Great Britain |
| 1840 - 1,331 miles of railroad in operation |
