1863 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1863
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Events from the year 1863 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Victoria
- Prime Minister – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)
Events
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- 8 January – Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
- 10 January – the first section of the London Underground Railway opens to the public (Paddington to Farringdon Street).[1]
- 7 February – HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand with the loss of 189 lives.
- 25 February – William Thomson enthroned as Archbishop of York.[2]
- 2 March – Clapham Junction railway station opens in London.
- 10 March – marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) to Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra) at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.[3]
- 27 May – Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Crowthorne receives its first patients.
- 4 June – the Eton Boating Song is first performed.
- 15–17 August – Bombardment of Kagoshima: Royal Navy bombards the town of Kagoshima in Japan in retribution after the Namamugi Incident of 1862.
- 20 August – Ladies' London Emancipation Society established as an abolitionist group in support of the Union (American Civil War) by Clementia Taylor at Aubrey House.
- 23 October – Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales introduces steam locomotives into general service, the first time this has been done anywhere in the world on a public railway of such a narrow gauge (2 feet (61 cm)).[4]
- 26 October – the Football Association is founded at the Freemasons' Tavern in Long Acre, London.[1]
- 8 December – the Football Association laws are agreed.[5]
- 10 December – Tom King, Heavyweight Champion of England, wins the last major bare-knuckle boxing match in England, against the American John C. Heenan at Wadhurst, East Sussex.[6]
- 19 December
- linoleum patented.[1]
- the first game is played under the new Football Association rules at Mortlake between Ebenezer Morley's Barnes Club and Richmond F.C., ending in a goalless draw.[5]
Undated
- Before 30 March – the government rejects the Greek Assembly's choice of The Prince Alfred as the successor to the deposed Otto of Greece.[1]
- The case of Byrne v Boadle introduces the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur into English tort law.[7]
- Richard Owen publishes the first description of a fossilised bird, Archaeopteryx.[1]
- A scarlet fever epidemic causes over 30,000 deaths.[1]
- The Chōshū Five leave Japan secretly to study at University College London, part of the ending of sakoku.
- Beginning of Second Anglo-Ashanti war.
- Stoke City F.C. formed.
Publications
- Henry Walter Bates's work The Naturalist on the River Amazons.[1]
- Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water Babies (complete in book form).[8]
- Charles Lyell's work Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, endorsing the views of Charles Darwin.[1]
- Mrs Oliphant's novel Salem Chapel, first of The Chronicles of Carlingford (in book form).
- Ouida's novel Held in Bondage.[9]
Births
- 17 January – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (died 1945)
- 11 March – Andrew Stoddart, sportsman (died 1915)
- 17 March - Olivia Shakespear, novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (died 1938)
- 27 March – Henry Royce, automobile pioneer (died 1933)
- 5 April – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, member of the Royal Family (died 1950)
- 18 April – Linton Hope, Olympic yachtsman and yacht and aircraft designer (died 1920)
- 15 May – Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (died 1936)
- 17 May – Charles Robert Ashbee, designer (died 1942)
- 27 May – Arthur Mold, cricketer (died 1921)
- 13 June – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer (died 1942)
- 19 June – John Goodall, footballer (died 1942)
- 6 July – Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (died 1943)
- 21 July – C. Aubrey Smith, actor and cricketer (died 1948 in Beverly Hills)
- 13 September – Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935)
- 16 October – Austen Chamberlain, statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1937)
- 17 December – Violet Bland, suffragette (died 1940)
- 20 December – Margaret Greville, née Anderson, society hostess and philanthropist (died 1942)
Deaths
- 6 January – Harriet Gouldsmith, landscape painter and etcher (born 1787)
- 9 March – John Gully, sportsman and politician (born 1783)
- 13 April – Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)
- 14 August – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, soldier (born 1792)
- 24 June – Sir George Elliot, admiral (born 1784)
- 17 September – Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, archaeologist and writer (born 1788)
- 26 September – Frederick William Faber, poet, hymnodist, theologian and Catholic convert (born 1814)
- 6 October – Frances Milton Trollope, novelist and writer (born 1779)
- 8 October – Richard Whately, theologian and archbishop (born 1787)
- 28 October – William Cubitt, building and civil engineering contractor and politician (born 1791)
- 24 December – William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (born 1811)
- 29 December – Joseph John Scoles, Catholic architect (born 1798)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1863". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ Carlyle, E. I. (2004). "Thomson, William (1819–1890)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Ransom, P. J. G. (1996). Narrow Gauge Steam: its origins and world-wide development. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 0-86093-533-7.
- ^ a b Bragg, Melvyn (2006). 12 books that changed the world. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-83980-5.
- ^ "The Great Fight, This Day". The Standard. London. 10 December 1863. p. 5.
- ^ 2 Hurl. & Colt. 722, 159 Eng. Rep. 299, 1863.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
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