resigned in early 1855 after a large parliamentary majority voted for a select committee to enquire into the incompetent management of the Crimean War. The former...
The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1855, when a routine shipment of three boxes of gold bullion and coins was stolen from the guard's...
This is a list of UnitedKingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament...
related to 1855. 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar...
list of acts of the Parliament of theUnitedKingdom for the year 1855. Note that the first parliament of theUnitedKingdom was held in 1801; parliaments...
ministers of theUnitedKingdom by length of tenure. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by the number of calendar days, the figures...
of UnitedKingdom citizens are recorded by regular surveys, the four major ones being the national decennial census, the Labour Force Survey, the British...
The 1859 UnitedKingdom general election returned Liberal Party to a majority of seats (356 out of 654) inthe House of Commons. The Earl of Derby's Conservatives...
is the capital and largest city of both England and theUnitedKingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million, and its metropolitan area is the largest...
is the second-largest religion intheUnitedKingdom, with results from the 2021 Census recording just under four million Muslims, or 6.0% of the total...
territorial changes and political events intheUnitedKingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of...
Metrication, the process of introducing the metric system of measurement in place of imperial units, has made steady progress intheUnitedKingdom since the mid-20th...
IntheUnitedKingdom, the word liberalism can have any of several meanings. Scholars primarily use the term to refer to classical liberalism. The term...
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people. Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of...
list of prime ministers of theUnitedKingdom by age. This table can be sorted to display prime ministers of theUnitedKingdom by name, order of office...
Sunday-only weekly newspapers are distributed nationally intheUnitedKingdom. Others circulate in Scotland only and still others serve smaller areas. National...
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...
The British ambassador to theUnited States is in charge of the British Embassy, Washington, D.C., theUnitedKingdom's diplomatic mission to the United...
The prime minister of theUnitedKingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet. There...
Beer intheUnitedKingdom has a long history, and has quite distinct traditions. Historically the main styles were top-fermented Bitters, Porters, Stouts...
the Prime Minister, 1955–1997, in 2005. List of prime ministers of theUnitedKingdom List of spouses of national leaders born abroad Spouse of the prime...
different types of mass media intheUnitedKingdom: television, radio, newspapers, magazines and websites. TheUnitedKingdom is known for its large music...
coordinates) This is a list of road, railway, waterway, and other tunnels intheUnitedKingdom. A tunnel is an underground passageway with no defined minimum length...
members of Parliament, the general public and journalists alike have attempted to rank prime ministers of theUnitedKingdom and prime ministers of Great...
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