1834 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1834 in the United Kingdom.

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March 18 - The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset farm labourers, are sentenced to be transported to a penal colony for forming a trade union.
July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
August 1 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire (see Slavery Abolition Act).
August 14 - Poor Law Amendment Act states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse.
October 16 - Much of the Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire.
November 14 - William IV dismisses the government of Melbourne. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington forms a caretaker government.
December 10 - Sir Robert Peel forms his first government.
Last hanging in chains upon a gibbet in England - James Cook for murder.
British East India Company monopoly on China trade ended.
The Exchequer was abolished as a revenue collecting department of the British government.

28 January - Sabine Baring-Gould, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar (died 1924)
15 February - William Henry Preece, electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1913)
19 February - Charles Davis Lucas, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1914)
16 March - James Hector, geologist (d. 1907)
24 March - William Morris, artist, writer, socialist and activist (d. 1896)
19 June - Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher (d. 1892)
4 August - John Venn, mathematician (d. 1923)
9 September - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, novelist (d. 1903)