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1832 in the United Kingdom

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1832 in the United Kingdom
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1832 English cricket season

Events from the year 1832 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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Events

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  • 8 January – Bell's New Weekly Messenger (London) becomes the first known English newspaper to include a political cartoon.[1]
  • 12 February – second cholera pandemic begins to spread in London, starting from East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. It will claim at least 3000 victims. In Liverpool, Kitty Wilkinson becomes the "Saint of the Slums"[2] by promoting hygiene.[3]
  • 7 June – the Great Reform Act becomes law, abolishing most rotten boroughs and redistributing Parliamentary seats to newer urban centres of industry and commerce, while extending suffrage to male copyholders and leaseholders of rural property with a minimum annual value or renters of property in boroughs also with a minimum annual value (£10 in most cases).[4] It is estimated that this raises the number of English voters from 400,000 to 650,000.[5] A separate husting is required for every 600 voters.[6] Similar legislation is passed for Scotland (the Scottish Reform Act)[7] and Ireland (An Act to Amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, the Irish Reform Act).[8]
  • 4 July – University of Durham founded by Act of Parliament at the instigation of the authorities of the city's cathedral.
  • 16 July – "The Bad Day": 31 sixareens, the traditional fishing craft of Shetland, are lost in a storm with 105 crew.[7]
  • 19 July – Anatomy Act provides for licensing and inspection of anatomists, and for unclaimed corpses from public institutions to be available for their dissection.
  • 1 August – Prescription Act reforms the law related to easements and establishes the right of ancient lights.
  • 7 August – William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury because of his opposition to the Great Reform Act.[9][10]
  • 11–14 August – the body of James Cook, a bookbinder executed the previous day for the murder of his creditor Paas, is hung in irons on a gibbet in Leicester, the last time this practice is carried out.[11]
  • 1 September – reformer Joseph Livesey draws up the first public pledge of teetotalism in Preston, Lancashire.[12]
  • 8 December–8 January 1833 – general election, the first under the new franchise, gives the Whigs a decisive majority.[13]

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References

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  1. ^ "Today in History". Metro. London. 8 January 2024. p. 4.
  2. ^ "'Slum Saint' honoured with statue". BBC News. 4 February 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  3. ^ Rathbone, Herbert R. (1927), Memoir of Kitty Wilkinson of Liverpool, 1786–1860, H. Young & Sons
  4. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  5. ^ Phillips, John A.; Wetherell, Charles (1995). "The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of England". American Historical Review. 100 (2): 411–436. doi:10.2307/2169005. JSTOR 2169005.
  6. ^ Roberts, Matthew (2008). Political Movements in Urban England, 1832–1914. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  7. ^ a b "Notable Dates in History – From the Scottish Reform Bill (1832) to the outbreak of the First World War (1914)". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  8. ^ The law journal for the year 1832–1949, Abridgment of statutes, vol. X, E. B. Ince, 1832
  9. ^ "Assault on His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury". The Times. No. 14927. London. 10 August 1832. p. 3.
  10. ^ Garrard, James (2004). Archbishop Howley 1828–1848. The Archbishops of Canterbury Series. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 47–8. ISBN 978-1-4724-5133-0.
  11. ^ "James Cook". The Newgate Calendar. Archived from the original on 30 December 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  12. ^ "Blue plaques in Preston". BBC. 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  13. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.