1896 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 January 2013 1896 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1896 English cricket season Football: England Scotland Events from the year 1896 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Coalition) Events January – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed.Christopher Slee The Guinness Book of Lasts Enfield Guinness Publishing 1994 0-85112-783-5 2 January – the Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 324–325 0-7126-5616-2 6 January – Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier of Cape Colony over the Jameson Raid. 10 January – American-born Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon, the first in Britain, to the Lyonsdown Photographic Club in New Barnet, the first film show to an audience in the U.K.Patrick Robertson Film Facts Quantum Books 2001 978-1-84573-235-6 14 January – Acres demonstrates his Kineopticon to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London.http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/acres_bio.html Birt Acres EarlyCinema.com 2011-08-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110712064944/http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/acres_bio.html 12 July 2011 usurped 16 January – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth. 28 January In an underground explosion at Tylorstown Colliery, Rhondda, 57 miners are killed.Welsh Coal Mines http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Photo.htm 2010-11-27 Engineer Walter Arnold of the Arnold (automobile) company of East Peckham in Kent receives the U.K.'s first speeding conviction for travelling at 8 mph km/h on in a motorised vehicle, thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit for towns of 2 mph km/h on.http://www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/motoring_firsts National Motoring Museum Motoring firsts 2024-03-20 2016-01-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20160114042029/http://www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/motoring_firsts dead Wayback Machine 20 February – in London:Mast Gerald Kawin Bruce F. A Short History of the Movies abridged 9th 2007 Pearson Education 9780321418210 Birth Silent Robert W. Paul demonstrates his film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph), at the Alhambra Theatre. The Lumiere Brothers first project their films in Britain, at the Empire Theatre of Varieties, Leicester Square. 12 March – Salisbury orders a military campaign to combat increasing French influence in the Sudan. 29 March – the Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth in Ireland is granted the status of pontifical university by charter of the Holy See.Rescripts of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide. 6 April – the Snowdon Mountain Railway commences public operation; however, a derailment leading to one fatality causes services to be suspended for a year.Kardas Handel Britain's worst railway opening day – Ladas and the Snowdon Mountain Railway Railway World 58 683 April 1997 66–71 6–15 April – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the Olympics and win 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. 16 April – the National Trust acquires (for £10) its first building for preservation, and its first property in England, Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex. 21 April – Royal Victorian Order instituted. 23 April – Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park established.The History of Pleasure Beach, Blackpool http://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/history.php Pleasure Beach Theme Park 2010-10-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20100917185941/http://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/history.php 17 September 2010 dead 30 April – Peckfield Colliery disaster in Micklefield, Yorkshire: an underground explosion kills 63 men and boys and 19 pit ponies.Micklefield Colliery Explosion - Leeds - 1896 https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/yorkshire/micklefield-colliery-explosion-leeds-1896/ Northern Mine Research Society 2021-05-21 4 May – Daily Mail newspaper founded.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 8 May – in cricket, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887 against Warwickshire. 18–20 May – Newlyn riots: protests by fishermen at Newlyn, Cornwall, against those from Lowestoft and elsewhere fishing on Sabbath, leading to military intervention. 7 June – Mahdist War: British and Egyptian victory at the Battle of Ferkeh. 12 June – Jack (J. T.) Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931. 26 July–1 August – International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress held in London. 17 August Bridget Driscoll becomes the first person in the world to be killed in a car accident, in the grounds of The Crystal Palace. Start of development of Trafford Park, Manchester, pioneering example of a planned industrial estate in England.Robert Nicholls Trafford Park: the First Hundred Years Phillimore & Co Ltd Chichester 1996 1-86077-013-4 27 August The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling. Britain establishes a Protectorate over Ashanti concluding the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War. 15 September – Pope Leo XIII issues the papal bull Apostolicae curae, declaring all Anglican ordinations to be "absolutely null and utterly void". 22 September – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history up to this date. 23 September – Kitchener captures Dongola in the Sudan. 30 September–August 1897: Lock-out of Welsh slate workers at Penrhyn Quarry.Jean Lindsay A History of the North Wales Slate Industry Newton Abbot David & Charles 1974 0-7153-6264-X thumb|200px|right|London to Brighton Veteran Car Run recreating the 1896 'Emancipation Run' 14 November – the Locomotives on Highways Act (of 14 August)Parliament The Mail London 17 August 1896 5 comes into effect, raising the speed limit for road vehicles from 4 to 14 mph and removing the requirement for a man to walk in front of an automobile to give warning. To celebrate this, an 'Emancipation Run' of cars from London to Brighton (continuing afterwards as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run) is held.http://www.lbvcr.com/history.cfm London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2008-03-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20080308164659/http://www.lbvcr.com/history.cfm 8 March 2008 dead By this date, Thomas Humber's car factory in Coventry has become the first in Britain to begin series production.Michael Stratton Trinder, Barrie Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology London E. & F.N. Spon 2000 0-419-24680-0 75 4–5 December – a storm hits Brighton, destroying the old Chain Pier (closed October) and badly damaging the other piers and the new Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (opened 28 November). 11 December – William Preece introduces Guglielmo Marconi's work in wireless telegraphy to the general public at a lecture, "Telegraphy without Wires", at the Toynbee Hall in London. 14 December – Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world (after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro), begins operations in Glasgow. 17 December – Hereford earthquake. Undated Completion of the first flats in the London County Council's Boundary Estate in the East End of London, the country's earliest public housing scheme, replacing part of the notorious Old Nichol slum.Rosemary Taylor Walks Through History Exploring the East End London Breedon Books 2001 1859832709 The Arts and Crafts movement house Munstead Wood in Surrey is designed by architect Edwin Lutyens for garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his first major commission and the start of an influential partnership. Publications Hilaire Belloc's verse collection The Bad Child's Book of Beasts. Joseph Conrad's novel An Outcast of the Islands. Marie Corelli's novels The Mighty Atom, The Murder of Delicia and Ziska. A. E. Housman's poetry collection A Shropshire Lad. W. W. Jacobs' short story collection Many Cargoes. William Morris's fantasy novel The Well at the World's End. Arthur Morrison's social realist novella A Child of the Jago. Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished historical novel Weir of Hermiston (posthumous). H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. Births 7 January – Arnold Ridley, actor and playwright (died 1984) 25 January - John Moores, businessman and owner of the Littlewoods empire (died 1993) 14 February – Edward Arthur Milne, astrophysicist and mathematician (died 1950) 3 May – Dodie Smith, novelist and playwright (died 1990) 7 May John Dunville, army officer, Victoria Cross recipient (died of wounds 1917) Kathleen McKane Godfree, tennis and badminton player (died 1992) 29 May – Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, aristocrat and socialite (died 1979) 1 June – Sydney Kyte, bandleader (died 1981) 6 June – Henry Allingham, became the oldest surviving British veteran of the First World War and briefly the world's oldest man (died 2009) 19 June R. Palme Dutt, communist theoretician (died 1974) Wallis Warfield, later Duchess of Windsor, American wife of the Duke of Windsor (died in France 1986) 25 June – Alfred Anderson, Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War (died 2005) 28 July – Guy Salisbury-Jones, Army major-general (died 1985) 28 July – Joyce Bishop, educator (died 1993)Bowden firstCaroline M. K. 10.1093/ref:odnb/51446 Bishop, Dame (Margaret) Joyce (1896–1993), headmistress 23 September 2004 19 July – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (died 1981) 14 August – Albert Ball, flying ace (killed in action 1917) 14 October – Bud Flanagan, comedian and singer (died 1968) 16 November – Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (died 1980) 17 November – Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, later Mary, Lady Heath, aviator and athlete (died 1939) 15 December – Miles Dempsey, general (died 1969) Deaths 8 January – Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge (born 1813) 17 January – Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, Welsh patron of the arts (born 1802)Anya Laurence Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900 New York Richards Rosen Press 1978 91 252454075 19 January – Bernhard Gillam, political cartoonist (born 1856) 25 January – Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor specialising in classical subjects (born 1830) 14 February – George Selwyn Marryat, fly fisherman (born 1840) 10 June – Amelia Dyer, baby farm murderer (born 1837; hanged) 23 June – Sir Joseph Prestwich, geologist (born 1812) 7 July – Charles Thomas Wooldridge, soldier and uxoricide commemorated in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (born 1866; hanged) 23 July – Caroline Martyn, Christian socialist and trade unionist (born 1867) 12 August – Sir Harry Lumsden, general (born 1821) 13 August – Sir John Everett Millais, painter (born 1829) 18 August – Frederick Nicholls Crouch, composer and cellist (born 1808) 2 May – Emma Darwin, née Wedgwood, wife of Charles Darwin (died 1896) 3 October – William Morris, artist, writer and socialist (born 1834) 6 October – Sir James Abbott, army officer and colonial administrator in British India (born 1807) 8 October – George du Maurier, cartoonist and novelist (born 1834 in France) 11 October – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1829) 21 October – James Henry Greathead, engineer and inventor (born 1844 in South Africa) November – Margaret Eleanor Parker, social activist, first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (born 1827) 26 November – Coventry Patmore, poet (born 1823) 10 December – Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, admiral of the fleet (born 1806) See also List of British films before 1920 References 1896 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1896 by country Category:1890s in the United Kingdom Category:1896 in Europe