Lord Melbourne's first premiership
1834 · Event
Melbourne is dismissed by William IV after four months, the last time a monarch sacked a prime minister.
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Around 1834
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)