1869 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Victoria
- Prime Minister – William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)
Events
- 7 January – Amateur Swimming Association formed in London.[1]
- 30 January – the new magazine lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini, portraying Benjamin Disraeli.
- February – Charity Organization Societyestablished in London as the Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity.
- February–April – the Conservative local authority in
- 6 March – the first international cycle race is held at Crystal Palace, London.[3]
- 31 March – the Conservative Party holds both seats in the Blackburn by-election.[4]
- 21 April – at least fifteen people are killed by collapse of machinery at Delabole Quarry in Cornwall.[5]
- 15 May – General Examination for Women of the University of London first held, sat by the "London Nine".
- 22 May – Sainsbury's first store opened, in Drury Lane, London.[6]
- 2 June – seven men are tried at Mold for attacking a colliery manager following a pay cut. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.[7]
- 10 June – an underground explosion at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda kills 53.[8]
- 24 June – Sea Birds Preservation Act passed, preventing killing of designated species during the breeding season, the first Act to offer any protection to wild birds in the UK.[9]
- 26 July – Irish Church Act disestablishes the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871.[10]
- 2 August – Poor Law Guardians, through an amendment moved by John Bright.
- 9 August
- Debtors Act abolishes indefinite imprisonment for civil debt in England and Wales with effect from 1870.
- Evidence (Further) Amendment Act permits those taking part in legal proceedings to make an affirmation if they conscientiously object to taking an oath.
- 27 August – Oxford University Boat Club wins the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University.[3]
- October – the 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[11]
- 11 October – Red River Rebellion against British forces in Canada.[10]
- 16 October – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.
- 4 November – the first issue of scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer.
- 19 November – the British Crown.[10]
- 22 November – clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, Scotland; she is one of the last clippers built, and the only one to survive in the UK.[3]
- 31 December – last day on which the half farthing coin is legal tender in the U.K.
- undated – first Home Children child migration to Canada.
Publications
- Matthew Arnold's collected essays Culture and Anarchy.
- R. M. Ballantyne's novel Erling the Bold.
- R. D. Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone.
- John Stuart Mill's book The Subjection of Women.
- Hesba Stretton's novel Alone in London.
- First year of publication of Joseph Whitaker's An Almanack for the year.
- Charlotte M. Yonge's novel The Chaplet of Pearls.
- The People's Friend weekly magazine launched (13 January).
Births
- 14 January – Dennis Eadie, Scottish-born character actor (died 1928)
- 26 January – George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
- 14 February – C. T. R. Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prizelaureate (died 1959)
- 3 March – Henry Wood, conductor (died 1944)
- 14 March – Algernon Blackwood, writer (died 1951)
- 18 March – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (died 1940)
- 27 March – J. R. Clynes, politician (died 1949)
- 29 March – Edwin Lutyens, architect (died 1944)
- 9 May – Tyrone Power Sr., actor (died 1931 in the United States)
- 18 May – Lucy Beaumont, actress (died 1937)
- 7 June – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, painter (died 1955)
- 11 June – Walford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)
- 17 June – Flora Finch, comic performer, silent film star (died 1940 in the United States)
- 19 June – Christopher Addison, anatomist and politician (died 1951)
- 12 July – Conrad Noel, Anglican vicar and socialist (died 1942)
- 13 July – Florence Perry, opera singer (died 1949)
- 10 August – Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (died 1943)
- 16 August – Vincent Lambert, Suspected Vampire (Unknown date of death)
- 6 September – Walford Davies, composer (died 1941)
- 24 September – Maud Cunnington, archaeologist (died 1951)
- 3 October – Robert W. Paul, pioneer of cinematography (died 1943)
- 15 November – Charlotte Mew, poet (suicide 1928)
- 20 November – Herbert Tudor Buckland, seminal Arts and crafts architect (died 1951)
- 26 November – Princess Maud of Wales, queen consort of Norway (died 1938)
- 30 December – Stephen Leacock, humorist and economist (died 1944 in Canada)
Deaths
- 30 January
- Charlotte Alington Barnard, poet and composer (born 1830)
- Frances Catherine Barnard, author (born 1796)
- 7 February – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, peer, Whig politician, courtier and cricketer (born 1797)
- 11 March – F. G. Loring, writer and naval officer (died 1951)
- 20 March – John Pascoe Grenfell, admiral in the Brazilian Navy (born 1800)
- 30 April – Sir Arthur William Buller, politician (born 1808)
- 18 May – Peter Cunningham, literary scholar and antiquarian (born 1816)
- 25 May – Sir Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (born 1800)
- 10 June – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter (born 1800)
- 11 July – William Jerdan, journalist (born 1782)
- 2 August – Thomas Medwin, poet, biographer and translator (born 1788)
- 5 August – Emily Eden, poet and novelist (born 1797)
- 8 August – Roger Fenton, photographer (born 1819)
- 11 September – Thomas Graham, chemist (born 1805)
- 12 September – Peter Mark Roget, lexicographer (born 1779)
- 18 September – Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter (born 1778)
- 20 September – George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge and politician, suicide (born 1803)
- 23 October – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (born 1799)
- 9 November – Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor, landowner and philanthropist in Wales (born 1797)
References
- ^ "The significance of 7 January for swimming". Swim England. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ "Municipal Housing in Liverpool before 1914: the 'first council houses in Europe'". Municipal Dreams. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
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- ^ "No. 23484". The London Gazette. 2 April 1869. p. 2051.
- ^ Porter, Sylvia J. (1997). Catastrophe at Delabole. Delabole: author.
- ISBN 1-85479-667-4.
- ^ "The Riot In Wales". The Times. No. 26455. London. 4 June 1869. p. 12.
- ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1959.tb02363.x. Archived from the originalon 5 January 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 January 2011. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)