1845 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1845 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

7 February - In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase which takes months to repair.^[1]
11 March - Flagstaff War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke lead 700 Māoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka, now known as Russell.
17 March - Stephen Perry patents the rubber band.^[2]
1 May - First cricket match to be played at the Kennington Oval.^[3]
9 August - Aberdeen Act instructing the Royal Navy to counter the Brazilian slave trade, signed.
9 September - Potato blight begins in Ireland.^[3]
9 October - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
22 December–23 December - First Anglo-Sikh War: British forces defeat Sikhs at Battle of Ferozeshah in Punjab.^[4]
30 December - Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork and Galway are incorporated in Ireland.

Beginning of the Irish Potato Famine.
John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage mysteriously disappears.^[5]
First University Boat Race to use the present Putney to Mortlake course (albeit in the reverse direction to that used today).^[3]

^ "Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, February 7th". http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/feb/7.htm. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 267-268. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. pp. 549. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.