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Events from the year 1841 in the United Kingdom.

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Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig (until 30 August), Robert Peel, Conservative

25 January - Charles Elliot and Qishan of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh. A navy official Edward Belcher led a fleet to land Hong Kong.^[vague]
26 January - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong.
27 January - Discovery of Mount Erebus in Antarctica by James Clark Ross.
28 January - James Clark Ross discovers the Ross Ice Shelf.
February - William Fox Talbot obtains a patent for the calotype process in photography.^[1]
3 May - New Zealand becomes a British colony.^[2]
7 June - Viscount Melbourne loses a vote of no confidence against his government.
5 July - Thomas Cook arranges the first railway excursion.^[2]
17 July - First edition of Punch Magazine published.^[3]
28 August - Melbourne resigns as Prime Minister; replaced by Robert Peel.^[4]
24 September - United Kingdom annexes Sarawak from Brunei; James Brooke is appointed rajah.
30 October - a fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage.^[5]
12 November - First publication of The Jewish Chronicle, the first Jewish newspaper in the UK.^[2]
13 November - Surgeon James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
23 December - First Anglo-Afghan War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is torn to pieces.

^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ Marion Harry Spielmann (1895). The History of "Punch". pp. 27.
^ ^a ^b ^c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 264–266. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. pp. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.