1862 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1862 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
- January – at the end of the longest and most expensive lunacy case in English history, William Frederick Windham, heir to Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, is declared to be of sound mind.[1][2]
- 6 January – French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
- 16 January – Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 miners die following collapse of machinery at the Hartley Colliery in Northumberland.[3]
- 15 March – riots in Stalybridge resulting from the Lancashire Cotton Famine.[4]
- 21 March – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.[5]
- May – the 10.00 a.m. "Special Scotch Express", predecessor of the Flying Scotsman express train, first departs from London King's Cross for Edinburgh over the East Coast Main Line.
- 1 May – 1862 International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in South Kensington.[4]
- 16 May – Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.[6]
- 24 May – new Westminster Bridge, designed by Thomas Page, is opened in London.[7]
- 5 June – "Geordie" Ridley first sings "Blaydon Races" at Balmbra's Music Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
- 30 June – 'Revised Code', introducing a system of 'payment by results' for
- 1 July – marriage of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
- 4 July – rowing trip on The Isis from Folly Bridge, Oxford, to Godstow on which he tells the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[11]
- 29 July – John Laird Sons and Company.[12]
- 7 August – Companies Act 1862 facilitates creation of limited liability companies.
- 31 August – last mail coach runs from Carlisle to Hawick, Scotland.[13]
- 14 September – a British national, Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan by samurai in the Namamugi Incident. Three companions escape, though two are seriously injured.
- 30 September – Clifton College opens as a public school near Bristol.[14]
- 11 October – Jessie M'Lachlan, having been found guilty in the Sandyford murder case in Glasgow, is to be hanged, but has her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
- 20 October –
- November – criminal law amended to make flogging.[4]
- c. November – Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the Thames Embankment in London.[4][16]
- 28 November – Notts County F.C. is founded in Nottingham, making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest Association football playing professionally.
- Anglican Benedictine community, initially at Claydon, Suffolk.
Publications
- Thomas Allan's Tyneside Songs.
- M. E. Braddon's 'sensation novel' Lady Audley's Secret.
- George Eliot's novel Romola (serialisation).
- Herbert Spencer's book First Principles, the first volume of his System of Synthetic Philosophy.
- Anthony Trollope's novel Orley Farm completes publication.
Births
- 29 January – Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
- 17 February – Edward German, composer (d. 1936)
- 11 March – John Cowans, general (d. 1921)
- 1 April – Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions (d. 1957)
- 9 May – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), novelist (d. 1903)
- 27 May – Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Egyptologist (d. 1934)
- 6 June – Henry Newbolt, poet (d. 1938)
- 9 June – Ernest William Moir, civil engineer (d. 1933)
- 10 June – John de Robeck, admiral (d. 1928)
- 2 July
- William Henry Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
- Christopher Cradock, admiral (d. 1914)
- 15 July – Ernest Troubridge, admiral (d. 1926)
- 1 August – M. R. James, scholar and horror story writer (d. 1936)
- 5 August – Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
- 6 August – Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, historian (d. 1932)
- 26 August – Salvationist(d. 1926)
- 11 September – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, general (d. 1935)
- 29 September – Fred Russell, "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism" (d. 1957)
- 3 October – Johnny Briggs, cricketer (d. 1902)
- 13 October – Mary Kingsley, travel writer (d. 1900)
- 27 October – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)
- 12 December – J. Bruce Ismay, shipping magnate of White Star Line (d. 1937)
- 28 December – Christina Broom, photographer (d. 1939)
Deaths
- 3 January – Matthew Cotes Wyatt, painter and sculptor (b. 1777)
- 11 February – Elizabeth Siddall, artist, artist's model and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (b. 1829)
- 1 March – Peter Barlow, mathematician (b. 1776)
- 3 April – Sir James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (b. 1800)
- 15 April – Frederick William Hope, entomologist (b. 1797)
- 16 May – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, theorist of colonization (b. 1796)
- 17 June – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Viceroy of India (b. 1812)
- 29 June – James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (b. 1799)
- 27 August – Thomas Jefferson Hogg, biographer (b. 1792)
- 6 September – John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)
- 24 September – Judith Montefiore, linguist (b. 1784)
- 8 October – James Walker, civil engineer (b. 1781)
- 21 October – Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, physiologist (b. 1783)
- 4 November – Anne Knight, social reformer (b. 1786)
- 26 November – Julia Pardoe, novelist and historian (b. 1804)
- 17 December – Katherine Thomson, writing as Grace Wharton, novelist and historian (b. 1797)
- 19 December – Lucas Barrett, naturalist and geologist (b. 1837)
- 20 December – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist (b. 1791)[17]
References
- S2CID 828347.
- ISBN 9780812211191.
- ^ Durham Mining Museum – Colliery Disaster 1862
- ^ ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
- ISBN 978-1-4437-2948-2.
- ^ "Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide". Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
- ^ "Leader". The Times. No. 24364. London. 30 September 1862. p. 6.
- ^ Arnold, Matthew; Great Britain. Education Dept; Marvin, Francis Sydney (1908). Reports on elementary schools 1852-1882. University of California Libraries. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Office, by Wyman and sons, limited.
- ISBN 978-1-904955-72-6.
- ^ "The Alabama". Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2007.
- ^ "C3 – Coaching". Carlisle Encyclopaedia. Carlisle History. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- ^ "Opening of Clifton College". The Times. No. 24366. 2 October 1862. p. 7.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 November 2010. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- ^ "The Thames Embankment". The Times. No. 24414. 27 November 1862. p. 12.
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