1843
Publisher: Times Newspapers
Format: Hardback
ISBN: none
Good condition set of two.
Events 1843
March 24 – Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Emirs, securing Sindh as a Province of British India.
March 25 – Marc Isambard Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames and the world’s first bored underwater tunnel, is opened in London.
May 4 – Natal is proclaimed a British colony.
May 18 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
July 19 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol; it will be the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
September – The Economist newspaper is first published in London.
December 13 – Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.
December 17 – Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol is first published, in London. Released on December 19 it sells out by Christmas Eve.
December – The world’s first Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London from the artist John Callcott Horsley, are sent.
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