1887 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 January 2013 1887 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1887 English cricket season Football: England Events from the year 1887 in the United Kingdom. This year was the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative) Events 12 January – Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, while waiting to discuss his resignation from the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dies at 10 Downing Street.Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of 14 280 20 January – Emigrant ship Kapunda sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors.The Loss of the Kapunda: Details of the Disaster https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4659986/the_loss_of_the_kapunda_details_of_the/ 2016-03-18 Belfast Morning News 23 February 1887 5 18 February – National Colliery disaster at Cwtch in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills thirty miners.http://webapps.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/heritagetrail/rhondda/wattstown/wattstown.htm Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Services Heritage Trail Wattstown 2010-10-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20110110043854/http://webapps.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/heritagetrail/rhondda/wattstown/wattstown.htm 10 January 2011 dead 7 March–18 April – The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discredit Charles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.The Times: Past, Present, Future 1985 44–5 28 March – Irish Crimes Act suspends trial by jury in Ireland.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 313–314 0-7126-5616-2 31 March – St. John Ambulance Brigade formed. 3 May – Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, is opened by Princess Alexandra. 9 May – Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London. 11 May – First female victim of the Thames Torso Murders found.Bax Horton Sarah Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Murders 2024 The History Press 978-1-80399-748-3 https://books.google.com/books?id=384MEQAAQBAJ 28 May – Udston mining disaster in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: 73 coal miners die in a firedamp explosion at Udston Colliery.http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm The Flag in the Wind – Features – Notable Dates in History The Scots Independent 2010-07-14 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20141205083554/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm 2014-12-05 17 June – Hammersmith Bridge opens in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715--0 2006 20 June – Jubilee coinage first issued, including the only issue of a double florin. 20–21 June – Queen Victoria and the country celebrate a Golden Jubilee, the 50th year of her reign.http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/TheQueenandspecialanniversaries/HistoryofJubilees/QueenVictoria.aspx History of Jubilees – Queen Victoria The British Monarchy Royal Households of the United Kingdom#The Royal Household 2011-01-20 21 June – Jubilee Plot: Clan na Gael supporters land in Britain from the United States to commit terrorist offences. 22 June – Zululand becomes a British colony. 26 July — Blackpool F.C. founded. 5 September – Theatre Royal, Exeter burns down, and 186 people die. 1 October – British Empire takes over Balochistan. 6 October – the Hōvis process for manufacture of breadmaking flour is patented. 6 November – the Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor Children's Dinner Table.Coogan Tim Pat Tim Pat Coogan Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora Palgrave Macmillan 2002 250 978-1-4039-6014-6Wagg Stephen British Football and Social Exclusion https://archive.org/details/britishfootballs00wagg limited Routledge 2002 196 978-0-7146-5217-7 11 November – construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins. 13 November – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters. 17 December – English adventurer Thomas Stevens concludes the first circumnavigation by bicycle in Yokohama, having set out on his penny-farthing from San Francisco in 1884. 25 December – Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first distilled. Undated The Hospitals Association establishes the first (non-statutory and voluntary) register of nurses in the UK. Sir John Everett Millais' painting Bubbles is acquired for advertising purposes by Pears soap. Publications Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet (in Beeton's Christmas Annual, November). H. Rider Haggard's novels She and Allan Quatermain. Thomas Hardy's novel The Woodlanders. Births 10 February – E. V. Rieu, classicist and poet (died 1972) 5 March – Herbert Farjeon, man of the theatre (died 1945) 9 March – Phil Mead, cricketer (died 1958) 1 May – Alan Cunningham, World War II general (died 1983) 5 May – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1972) 24 May – Mick Mannock, World War I flying ace (killed in action 1918) 4 June – Ray Strachey, born Rachel Costelloe, feminist campaigner (died 1940) 21 June – Hastings Ismay, army officer (died 1965) 22 June – Julian Huxley, biologist (died 1975) 29 July – William Graham, Scottish politician (died 1932) 3 August – Rupert Brooke, war poet (died 1915) 16 August – Hugh Dalton, politician (died 1962) 22 August – Walter Citrine, trade unionist (died 1983) 31 August – William McMillan, sculptor (died 1977) 7 September – Edith Sitwell, poet (died 1964) 26 September – Edwin Keppel Bennett, writer (died 1958) 26 September – Barnes Wallis, scientist, engineer and inventor (died 1979) 11 October – Henry Montgomery Campbell, Bishop of London (died 1970) 1 November – L. S. Lowry, painter (died 1976) 11 November – Maurice Elvey, born William Folkard, film director (died 1967) 17 November – Bernard Montgomery, World War II commander (died 1976) 23 November – Boris Karloff, born William Pratt, film actor (died 1969) Isabel Emslie Hutton, Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (died 1960) Deaths 12 January – Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, politician (born 1818) 22 January – Sir Joseph Whitworth, mechanical engineer (born 1803) 10 February – Mrs Henry Wood, novelist (born 1814) 13 February – Philip Bourke Marston, poet (born 1850) 4 March – Mrs W. H. Foley, actor, singer, director and manager (born 1821) 23 April – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet (born 1832) 7 May – Samuel Cousins, engraver (born 1801) 8 May – Thomas Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer and meteorologist (born 1818) 21 May – Sir Horace Jones, architect (born 1819) 10 June – Richard Lindon, inventor (born 1816) 8 July – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (born 1820) 25 July – Henry Mayhew, writer (born 1812) 16 August – Webster Paulson, civil engineer (born 1837) 12 October – Dinah Craik, novelist and poet (born 1826) 5 December – Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, diplomat (born 1817) 14 December – William Garrow Lettsom, diplomat, mineralogist and spectroscopist (born 1805) 23 December – Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, parson (born 1821) References 1887 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1887 by country Category:1880s in the United Kingdom Category:1887 in Europe