Events from the year 1840intheUnitedKingdom. Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig) Foreign Secretary – Henry...
TheUnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as theUnitedKingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued intheUnitedKingdom on 1 May 1840 but...
Until the advent of the railways, theUnitedKingdom used local mean time. Greenwich Mean Time was adopted first by the Great Western Railway in1840 and...
theKingdom of Great Britain and theKingdom of Ireland merged, creating first theUnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later theUnited Kingdom...
1840. 1840 (MDCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1840th...
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1840 to Wales and its people. Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of...
Due to the Population Act 1840, theUnitedKingdom Census of 1841 was conducted using a different framework from that of earlier UnitedKingdom censuses...
housing intheUnitedKingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number...
intheUnitedKingdom was the movement inthe late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, inthe United...
This is a list of cities intheUnitedKingdom that are officially designated such as of 12 November 2022[update]. It lists those places that have been...
citizens of theUnitedKingdom. The term includes people born inthe UK who are of Polish descent and Polish-born people who reside inthe UK. There are...
punishment intheUnitedKingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used within the British Isles from ancient times until the second half of the 20th...
from the year 1922 intheUnitedKingdom. Irish affairs occupied an important place in politics throughout this year. 1922 saw the establishment of the Irish...
of George II and sister of George III Princess Elizabeth of theUnitedKingdom (1770–1840), third daughter of George III Princess Elizabeth of Clarence...
Law enforcement intheUnitedKingdom is organised separately in each of the legal systems of theUnitedKingdom: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern...
personal union with theUnitedKingdom ended in 1837 on the accession of Queen Victoria because the succession laws (Salic Law) in Hanover prevented a...
Below are lists of the countries and territories that were formerly ruled or administered by theUnitedKingdom or part of the British Empire (including...
services intheUnitedKingdom are provided predominantly by the Royal Mail (and Post Office Limited which oversees post offices). Since 2006, the market...
have taken place inthe different jurisdictions of theUnitedKingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 (during the Second World War)...
from the year 1840in Ireland. 10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced. 1 April – Theatre Royal, Cork burns down. 19 May – foundation stone of the Roman...
the year 1840in Scotland. Lord Advocate – Andrew Rutherfurd Solicitor General for Scotland – James Ivory; then Thomas Maitland Lord President of the...
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