1863 in the United Kingdom

none November 2020 1863 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1863 English cricket season Events from the year 1863 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Liberal) Events thumb|280px|London Bridge on the Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales by William Holman Hunt. 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).1863 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 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.E. I. Carlyle Thomson, William (1819–1890) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27330 2010-11-19 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.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Before 30 March – the government rejects the Greek Assembly's choice of The Prince Alfred as the successor to the deposed Otto of Greece. 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 ft cm).Ransom, P. J. G. Narrow Gauge Steam: its origins and world-wide development 1996 Oxford Publishing Co Sparkford 0-86093-533-7 26 October – the Football Association is founded at the Freemasons' Tavern in Long Acre, London. 4–7 November – the Chōshū Five, having left Japan secretly, arrive in England to study at University College London, part of the ending of sakoku. 25 November – the case of Byrne v Boadle introduces the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur into English tort law.2 Hurl. & Colt. 722, 159 Eng. Rep. 299, 1863. 8 December – the Football Association laws are agreed.12 books that changed the world Melvyn Bragg Melvyn Bragg London Hodder & Stoughton 2006 0-340-83980-5 registration https://archive.org/details/12booksthatchang0000brag 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.The Great Fight, This Day The Standard London 1863-12-10 5 19 December Linoleum patented. 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. Undated Beginning of Second Anglo-Ashanti War (1863–1864). A scarlet fever epidemic causes over 30,000 deaths. Richard Owen publishes the first description of a fossilised bird, Archaeopteryx,On the archeopteryx of von Meyer, with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen R. Owen Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London 153 1863 33-47 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1863.0003 2025-10-23 Paper read 20 November 1862. from the specimen in London's British Museum. Supposed formation of Stoke City F.C. as Stoke Rovers. Publications Henry Walter Bates's work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water Babies (complete in book form).Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 283–284 0-7126-5616-2 Charles Lyell's work Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, endorsing the views of Charles Darwin. Mrs Oliphant's novel Salem Chapel, first of The Chronicles of Carlingford (in book form). Ouida's novel Held in Bondage.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965 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 1863 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1863 by country Category:1860s in the United Kingdom Category:1863 in Europe