1841
Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister
Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister
John Murray publishes The State in its relation with the Church by William Ewart Gladstone
Palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the term Dinosauria to refer to the "distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles" that were discovered in the fossil record
Austen Henry Layard's first expedition to the ruins of Nineveh in Assyria
John Murray II dies
Ada Lovelace translates Luigi Federico Menabrea's description of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, adding her own extensive annotations including calculation of Bernoulli numbers
Irish Potato Famine
Murray publishes Herman Melville's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life in England
The Corn Laws are repealed; John Murray published Robert Peel's "Speech on the repeal of the Corn Laws"
Murray publishes Herman Melville's sequel to Typee - Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas in England
Lord Melbourne dies
John Murray publishes Layard's Nineveh and its Remains
Murray publishes Joseph Cunningham's A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej
Layard's second expedition to Assyria, during which he discovers the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal
John Murray IV is born
The missionary and explorer, David Livingstone, embarks on an exploration to chart the Zambezi River
John Murray publishes Laurence Oliphant's A Journey to Katmandu
Crimean War
Birth of Hallam Murray, second son of John Murray III and Marion Smith
Caroline Norton submits to parliament, which was then debating the subject of divorce reform, an account of her marriage to George Norton
Murray publishes David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Murray publishes Self Help by Samuel Smiles, the first book of its kind
John Murray publishes Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Murray publishes Henry Walter Bates' The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Murray publishes David and Charles Livingstone's Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
Benjamin Disraeli's first term as Prime Minister
William Gladstone's first term as Prime Minister
American writer, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, publishes Lady Byron Vindicated: a history of the Byron controversy, from its beginning in 1816 to the present time, in Boston
Isabella Bird travels to Australia and Hawaii
Isabella Bird travels 800 miles through the Rocky Mountains
David Livingstone dies
Benjamin Disraeli's second term as Prime Minister
Murray publishes Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenae
Isabella Bird travels to Asia, visiting Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaya
William Gladstone's second term as Prime Minister
John Murray publishes Isabella Bird's The Hawaiian Archipelago: six months among the palm groves, coral reefs and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
Darwin dies
John Murray publishes the autobiography of engineer and inventor, James Nasmyth
The firm publishes the short-lived periodical, Murray's Magazine
Isabella Bird travels to India, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey
Robert Cooke dies
John Murray publishes the first volume of Isabella Bird's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Isabella Bird travels to Persia and Armenia
John Murray III dies
Isabella Bird becomes the first woman allowed to join the Royal Geographical Society
John Murray IV publishes The Life of Richard Owen, a biography of the palaeontologist written by his grandson
Isabella Bird travels to China and Korea
William Gladstone dies
John Murray publishes Isabella Bird's Korea and her neighbours: a narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and position of the country
John Murray publishes Isabella Bird's The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory
Queen Victoria dies
Isabella Bird travels to Morocco
Isabella Bird dies
John Murray IV publishes The Letters of Queen Victoria in three volumes
Hallam Murray resigns from the firm
John Murray purchases and publishes The Cornhill Magazine
John Murray IV receives a knighthood in recognition for his charitable work and the publication of The Letters of Queen Victoria
John Murray IV dies
Hallam Murray dies
The Byron Society is re-established
The John Murray imprint is acquired by Hodder
The John Murray Archives move from their historic home at 50 Albemarle Street to the National Library of Scotland