Lord John Russell's first premiership
1846–1852 · Event
Russell's Whig ministry mishandles the Irish famine and stages the Great Exhibition of 1851.
On these timelines: UK: Prime Ministers, England, United Kingdom (combined), Master, The Irish Famine
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- Pitt the Younger's first premiership (1783)
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- William Gladstone's first premiership (1868)
Around 1846
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)