1880 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 January 2013 1880 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1880 English cricket season Football: England Events from the year 1880 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) (until 21 April), William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) (starting 23 April) Events January–March – great fog continues to engulf London.The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb Hibbert Christopher Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 21 January – an underground firedamp explosion at Fair Lady Pit, Leycett, in the North Staffordshire Coalfield, kills 62 coal miners.Leycett Colliery Explosion 1880 HealeyHero http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/Collection/jl/Leycett-1880.htm 2010-10-18Collieries at Leycett Madeley, Staffordshire http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/leycett_colliery.htm 2010-10-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20090611174148/http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/leycett_colliery.htm 11 June 2009 dead 31 January – training frigate HMS Atalanta leaves Bermuda bound for Falmouth but is lost in the Atlantic with all 281 on board. 2 February – the first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.James Burke (science historian) James Burke Connections https://archive.org/details/connections00burk_351 limited London Macmillan 1978 0-333-24827-9 242 8 March – the Conservative Party lose the general election to the Liberal Party.Williams Hywel London Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 978-0-304-35730-7 433–434 19 March – Rev. Sidney Faithorn Green is imprisoned for over 2 years in Lancaster Castle and will be deprived of his parish in Manchester as a result of proceedings under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874. 3 April – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance has its London debut at the Opera Comique on the Strand. 18 April – William Ewart Gladstone succeeds Benjamin Disraeli as Prime Minister. This is Gladstone's second term as prime minister. 19 April – Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Ahmed Khel. 20 April – Victoria University chartered and incorporates Owens College, Manchester. 20 May – foundation stone laid for Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, the first to be built on a new site since the 13th century.http://www.trurocathedral.org.uk/cathedral-story/story2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20041221104535/http://www.trurocathedral.org.uk/cathedral-story/story2.html dead 2004-12-21 The Cathedral Story Truro Cathedral 2010-06-05 15 July – an underground firedamp explosion at Risca Colliery in the Crosskeys district of Monmouthshire kills 120 coal minersNew Risca Pit Welsh Coal Mines http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Gwent/RiscaPit.htm 2010-10-18Gwents Time Line http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/ebbw-vale/gwentime.htm 2010-10-18 15 June 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110615182920/http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/ebbw-vale/gwentime.htm dead and 69 horses.Ceri Thompson Harnessed: colliery horses in Wales Cardiff National Museum Wales 2008 978-0-7200-0591-2 46 27 July – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand. 2 August – Time in the United Kingdom: Greenwich Mean Time adopted as the legal standard throughout Great Britain by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 26 August – Elementary Education Act ("Mundella's Act") enforces school attendance up to the age of ten in England and Wales.George Berry Discovering Schools Tring Shire Publications 1970 978-0-85263-091-4 1 September – Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Kandahar. 6–8 September – first cricket Test match held in Britain. 8 September – an underground explosion at Seaham Colliery, County Durham, kills 164 coal miners.http://www.dmm.org.uk/reports/2924-02.htm Report Durham Mining Museum 2010-10-14 October – Irish tenants ostracise landholder's agent Charles Boycott.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 304–305 978-0-7126-5616-0 29 October – Wells lifeboat disaster: RNLI life-boat Eliza Adams of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, capsizes on service; 11 of 13 crew lost.Sunderland Today 2005 http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=51846&sectionID=6045 Wells lifeboat disaster 2005-10-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20070311164152/http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=51846&sectionID=6045 11 March 2007 dead 17 November – the University of London awards the first degrees to women. 27 November – Rev. Richard Enraght is imprisoned for 49 days in Warwick Prison and deprived of his parish in Birmingham as a result of proceedings under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874. 10 December – an underground firedamp explosion at Naval Steam Colliery, Penygraig, in the Rhondda, kills 101 coal miners.Naval Colliery disasters http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/deathrolls/Naval.htm Welsh Coal Mines 2010-10-14 15 December – first performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands) at the Gaiety Theatre, London.English first performances http://www.ibsen.net/index.gan?id=90071&subid=0 Ibsen.net 12 May 2004 2013-02-08 16 December High Court of Justice reorganised into the Chancery, Queen's Bench and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, with abolition of the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions. The Boers declare independence in Transvaal triggering the First Boer War. 20 December – First Boer War: British forces defeated in the action at Bronkhorstspruit. 24 December – first festival of Nine Lessons and Carols devised by Edward White Benson, at this time Bishop of Truro.Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2005/12/16/faith_nine_lessons_feature.shtml BBC 16 December 2005 25 June 2010 Undated Foundation of the David Greig provision merchant chain in London. A. & R. Scott begin producing the predecessor of Scott's Porage Oats in Scotland.http://www.scottsporage.co.uk/the-scotts-porage-story/our-heritage/#1 Scott's Porage – Our Heritage Scott's Porage Oats 2010-10-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20100923232409/http://www.scottsporage.co.uk/the-scotts-porage-story/our-heritage/#1 23 September 2010 dead Publications Benjamin Disraeli's novel Endymion. Amelia Edwards' novel Lord Brackenbury. Thomas Hardy's novel The Trumpet-Major. Births 28 January – Bert Strudwick, cricketer (died 1970) 8 February – Arthur Greenwood, politician (died 1954) 17 February – Reginald Farrer, botanist (died 1920) 1 March – Lytton Strachey, biographer and critic, member of the Bloomsbury Group (died 1932)S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006 6 March – Jameson Adams, Antarctic explorer, Royal Navy officer and civil servant (died 1962) 17 April – Leonard Woolley, archaeologist (died 1960) 30 April – Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, cartoonist (died 1967) 25 May – Alf Common, footballer (died 1946) 21 June – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, economist (died 1941) 12 August – Radclyffe Hall, author and poet (died 1943) 13 August – Mary Macarthur, trade unionist (died 1921) 23 August – Wyndham Standing, English actor (died 1963) 16 September – Alfred Noyes, poet (died 1958) 22 September – Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (died 1958) 23 September – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971) 15 October – Marie Stopes, birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (died 1958) 28 October – Saxon Sydney-Turner, civil servant, eccentric, member of the Bloomsbury Group (died 1962) 2 November – John Foulds, classical music composer (died 1939) 9 November – Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (died 1960) 10 November – Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (died 1959) 25 November – Elsie J. Oxenham, children's novelist (died 1960) Deaths 27 January – Edward Middleton Barry, architect (born 1830) 2 February – Sir George Hamilton Seymour, diplomat (born 1797) 3 April – John Laing, bibliographer and Free Church of Scotland minister (born 1809) 12 April – Joseph Brown, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1796) 6 May – Charles Meredith, Welsh-born politician in Tasmania (born 1811) 10 May – John Goss, church composer (born 1800) 27 May – Alfred Swaine Taylor, toxicologist, "father of British forensic medicine" (born 1806) 30 May – James Planché, dramatist (born 1796) 12 July – Tom Taylor, dramatist and journalist (born 1817) 15 August – Adelaide Neilson, actress (born 1848) 22 August – Benjamin Ferrey, architect (born 1810) 9 September – Charles Lowder, Anglican priest prominent in Anglo-Catholicism and humanitarian (born 1820)Charles Fuge Lowder http://anglicanhistory.org/bios/cflowder.html Project Canterbury London Catholic Literature Association 1933 2021-02-14 18 September – Sir Fitzroy Kelly, lawyer and politician, last Chief Baron of the Exchequer (born 1796) 23 September – Geraldine Jewsbury, novelist and woman of letters (born 1812) 25 September – John Tarleton, admiral (born 1811) 5 October – William Lassell, astronomer (born 1799) 30 November – Jeanette Threlfall, hymnwriter (born 1821) 22 December – George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), novelist and woman of letters (born 1819) 31 December – John Stenhouse, Scottish chemist (born 1809) References 1880 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1880 by country Category:1880s in the United Kingdom Category:1880 in Europe