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Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York.The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was inhabited by celtic Britons and occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings.
The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848 , also known as the Springtime of Nations .
Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England begins publication. William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Catherine. William Whewell's book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history, in which he introduces the words "Physicist" and (for the second time) "Scientist". [17] [18] [19]
A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835. The nature of the Industrial Revolution's impact on living standards in Britain is debated among historians, with Charles Feinstein identifying detrimental impacts on British workers, whilst other historians, including Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson claim the Industrial Revolution improved the living standards of British ...
1840s in England (15 C) 1840s in Ireland (15 C, 12 P)- ... Pages in category "1840s in the United Kingdom" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
While the greater part of the county was absolutely destitute of human life, and all the land northward lay blackened, Leeds in 1086 had a population of at least two hundred people. [4] There were two significant foci to the settlement; the area around the parish church and the main manorial landholding half a mile to the west of the church.
The Manchester Academy had moved to York in 1803 and, though it returned in 1840, in 1853 it moved again to London, eventually becoming Harris Manchester College, Oxford. However, a Mechanics' Institute , later to become UMIST , was founded in 1824 by among others, John Dalton the "father of atomic theory".
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