| Year Summary | In the UK: Monarch is Queen Victoria. Prime Minister is Lord John Russell (Whig), then on 23 February is Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Conservative), then on 19 December is George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (Coalition). Great Ormond Street Hospital in London opens as <em>The Hospital for Sick Children</em>. Charles Dickens' novel <em>Bleak House</em> is serialised.<br />In the USA: President is Millard Fillmore (W-New York). The California Gold Rush continues (1848–1855). |
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