12 January – Chartist rising in Sheffield aborted.
14 January – Chartist rising in the East End of London largely suppressed by police.[1]
16 January – Frost, Williams and Jones are all found guilty of high treason for their part in the Chartist riots, and are sentenced to death; the last time the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering is passed in the U.K., although following a nationwide petitioning campaign and direct lobbying of the Home Secretary by the Lord Chief Justice, it is commuted to transportation for life (Frost is eventually pardoned).
22 January – British colonists reach New Zealand. Official founding date of Wellington.
26 January – Chartist rising in Bradford fails to spread.[1]
6 February – Treaty of Waitangi, a document granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.[2]
11 October – Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottomans (in alliance with the British) and on 14 October goes into exile, initially in Malta.[12]
10 November – the boiler of an experimental steam locomotive named Surprise explodes near Bromsgrove station in Worcestershire, killing the driver, Thomas Scaife, and fireman, Joseph Rutherford.[13]
William Whewell's book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history, in which he introduces the words "Physicist" and (for the second time) "Scientist".[17][18][19]
Anne Lister, landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (born 1791)
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