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1835 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1835 in the United Kingdom.

• Monarch – William IV
• Prime Minister – Robert Peel (Conservative) (until 8 April); William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig) (starting 18 April)
• Foreign Secretary – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (until 18 April) Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (starting 18 April)

• 6 January–6 February – general election won by the Whigs, but Robert Peel initially remains in office, at the request of King William IV.^[1]
• 2 March – opening of Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal from NantwichtoAutherley Junction, Wolverhampton, the last major trunk narrow canal to be built and the final work of Thomas Telford (died 1834).^[2]
• 23 March – Marie Tussaud moves her wax museum, Madame Tussauds, to a permanent location in Baker Street, London.^[3]
• 18 April – Lord Melbourne succeeds Peel as Prime Minister.
• 1 May – Charles Chubb granted a patent for a burglar-resistant safe.^[4]
• 18 June – an underground explosionatWallsend Colliery kills 102.^[5]
• 14 July – organisation of the universal Catholic Apostolic Church.
• August – Henry Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negativesatLacock AbbeyinWiltshire.^[6]
• 25 August – Independent Order of Rechabites founded as the Salford Unity of Rechabites as part of the temperance movement.
• 31 August – Acts of Parliament passed:
  • Marriage Act prohibits marriage with a deceased wife's sister, although validating all existing such marriages.
  • Highway Act codifies the laws relating to highways, removes liability to statutory labour and makes parish surveyors responsible for upkeep of roads.^[7]
  • Great Western Railway incorporated.^[8]
• 7 September – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle.
• 9 September – Municipal Corporations Act modernises local government in towns and cities^[1] and gives the new authorities power to appoint police.^[9]
• 10 September – the Cruelty to Animals Act extends protection of domesticated animals from maltreatment, including outright prohibition on bear-baiting and cockfightinginEngland and Wales.^[10]
• 15 November – WeobleyinHerefordshire is the site of the consecration of the first Roman Catholic chapel in England since the Reformation.^[1]
• 27 November – two men, James Pratt and John Smith, are hanged in front of Newgate Prison in London after a conviction of buggery. They are the last to suffer capital punishment for homosexual acts in England.^[11]

• CoalvilleinLeicestershire is the site of the establishment of the first Roman Catholic monastery in England since the Reformation, the Cistercians' Mount St. Bernard.^[12]
• The county townofCornwall is transferred from LauncestontoBodmin.
• British Geological Survey founded as the Ordnance Geological Survey, under Henry De la Beche, the world's first national geological survey.
• Geological Museum founded as The Museum of Practical Geology in London.^[13]
• Ingeology, Roderick Murchison names the Silurian period,^[14] and Adam Sedgwick the Cambrian.^[15]
• Maria Callcott's Little Arthur's History of England is published.
• Thornton's Bookshop is opened by Joseph Thornton, Oxford's oldest bookshop until closed in 2002.

• 3 January – Fanny Cornforth, born Sarah Cox, artists' model (died 1909)
• 15 January – Arthur Pember, first president of The Football Association (died 1886 in the United States)
• 4 April – John Hughlings Jackson, neurologist (died 1911)
• 3 May – Alfred Austin, poet (died 1913)
• 27 May – Emily Faithfull, women's rights activist (died 1895)
• 6 July – George White, field marshal (died 1912)
• 17 July – Thomas Erskine Holland, academic lawyer (died 1926)
• 27 August – Thomas Burberry, businessman and inventor (died 1926)
• 1 September – William Stanley Jevons, economist (died 1882)
• 4 October – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist (died 1915)
• 25 November – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American steel magnate and philanthropist (died 1919 in the United States)
• 4 December – Samuel Butler, novelist and poet (died 1902)
• 28 December – Archibald Geikie, Scottish-born geologist (died 1924)

• 13 February – Henry Hunt, orator and radical politician (born 1773)
• 30 March – Richard Sharp, politician, merchant, critic, poet, conversationalist and wit (born 1759 in Newfoundland)
• 17 April – William Henry Ireland, poet and forger of Shakespeariana (born 1775)
• 13 May – John Nash, architect (born 1752)
• 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet (born 1793)
• 18 June – William Cobbett, journalist and author (born 1763)
• 28 June – Charles Mathews, comic actor and theatre manager (born 1776 in Great Britain)
• 5 July – Sir Edward Banks, civil engineering contractor (born 1770)
• 23 August – Isaac Pocock, dramatist (born 1782)
• 29 August – Nathaniel William Peach, politician (born 1785)
• 30 August – William T. Barry, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835 (born 1784 in the United States)
• 14 September – John Brinkley, astronomer (born 1763)
• 1 November – William Motherwell, Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist (born 1797)
• 19 November – Thomas Linley the elder, bass singer and founder of a musical dynasty (born 1733)
• 21 November – James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist (born 1770)
• 1 December – Charles Hayter, painter (born 1761)