1884 in the United Kingdom

none November 2020 January 2013 1884 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1884 English cricket season Football: England Events from the year 1884 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) Events 4 January – the Fabian Society is founded in LondonPenguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 to promote gradualist social progress. 5 January – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Princess Ida, a satire on feminism, has its première at the Savoy Theatre, London. 18 January – Dr William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, at Llantrisant. Later tried at Cardiff Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on 14 March.Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Ronald Hutton Hutton Ronald 2009 Yale University Press New Haven 978-0-300-14485-7 26 January–29 March – the first British Home Championship is held between the Association football teams of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 1 February – first fascicle of what will become the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 5 February – Derby County Football Club is founded in England. 15 February – Emma Keyse is murdered and John 'Babbacombe' Lee is suspected. 26 February – Fenian dynamite campaign: A bomb explodes in the left-luggage office at London Victoria station; bombs left at other London railway stations are defused.Porter Bernard The Origins of the Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Police Special Branch before the First World War Repr. Boydell & Brewer Woodbridge 1991 085115283Xhttps://books.google.com/books?id=NnzzDQAAQBAJ&q=fenian+dynamite+campaign+rebels War in the Shadows: the Irish-American Fenians who bombed Victorian Britain Shane Kenna Sallins Merrion 2014 9781908928054 3 March – sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins, the "Black Widows of Liverpool", are hanged for poisoning Higgins' husband for an insurance payout; they are suspected of at least four other similar murders.http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-murders/2010/01/07/mersey-murders-black-widows-margaret-higgins-and-catherine-flannagan-100252-25541424/ Black widows Margaret Higgins and Catherine Flannagan Rossington Ben 2010-01-07 The Liverpool Echo 2023-12-17 13 March – the Siege of Khartoum begins in the Sudan as part of the Mahdist War: an Egyptian garrison led by British General Charles Gordon and Sudanese civilians are besieged by Mahdist forces.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 309–310 0-7126-5616-2 28 March – Prince Leopold, the youngest son and eighth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies, aged 30, in Cannes (France) following a fall complicated by his haemophilia. His son, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, is born nearly 4 months later. 22 April – Colchester earthquake ("the Great English earthquake") measuring EMS-98 VIII (Heavily damaging)http://bib.gfz-potsdam.de/pub/str0302/0302_cat.pdf An earthquake catalogue for central, northern and northwestern Europe based on Mw magnitudes / Annex. STR 03/02 GeoForschungsZentrum 68 2011-12-16 is the UK's most destructive, although no direct fatalities can be confirmed.Musson R. M. W. https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-pdf/44/1/1.14/420519/44-1-1.14.pdf Fatalities in British earthquakes Astronomy & Geophysics 44 1 2003-02-01 1.14–1.16 29 May – Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd in London. 30 May – Fenian dynamite campaign: Three bombs explode in London: at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Metropolitan Police Service's Special Irish Branch; in the basement of the Carlton Club (a gentlemen's club frequented by members of the Conservative Party); and outside the home of Conservative MP Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn; ten people are injured. A fourth bomb planted at the foot of Nelson's Column fails to explode. 23 June – Married Women's Property Act 1884, relates solely to the giving of evidence in criminal matters by husband and wife.Wolstenholme Edward Parker Cherry Benjamin Lennard Brinton Willfred The Conveyancing Acts 1881, 1882 and 1892 William Clowes & Sons London 1895 274, 266. 268 1 July – First International Forestry Exhibition opens in Edinburgh.The Forestry Exhibition The Morning Post London 1884-07-02 3 8 July – the NSPCC is founded as the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.About the NSPCC http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo/aboutthenspcc/aboutthenspcc_wda36522.html 2007-09-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20070921160731/http://www.nspcc.org.uk/WhatWeDo/AboutTheNSPCC/aboutthenspcc_wda36522.html 2007-09-21 dead 16 July – a locomotive axle failure causes the derailment of an express passenger train from Manchester for London at Penistone; twenty-four passengers are killed.Terrible Railway Accident. 24 Killed: 40 Injured The Cornishman 314 24 July 1884 7 23 July – the first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall, Leamington Spa, are recorded in today's Courier. 22 September – Wasp 1880 is wrecked on Tory Island, County Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives and only 6 survivors.The Disaster Off Tory Island https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6926309/the_wreck_of_the_wasp/ 2016-10-07 Belfast Morning News 25 September 1884 8 Newspapers.com 28 September – the Marks & Spencer department store chain starts life as Michael Marks’ market stall in Leeds Kirkgate Market, Yorkshire.The Beginning http://marksintime.marksandspencer.com/Low/Era/TheBeginning Marks in Time Marks & Spencer Company Archive 2011-08-04http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUmarks.htm Michael Marks Spartacus 2010-07-13 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20110605081542/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUmarks.htm 5 June 2011 22 October The International Meridian Conference meeting in Washington, D.C., adopts the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian (voted on 13 October). The "Nine Graces", nine women who are the first to be awarded degrees from the Royal University of Ireland, become the first women in the United Kingdom to be awarded degrees. They include Alice Oldham, Isabella Mulvany and Charlotte M. Taylor. 18 October – University College of North Wales, Bangor founded. 1 November – Leicester City F.C. play their first match, as Leicester Fosse Football Club. 2 November – the "Home Office Baby" is delivered to the Home Office. 2 November – fourteen people are killed when some of the audience at the Star Theatre, Glasgow, panics following a false fire alarm.Terrible Panic in a Glasgow Theatre The Cornishman 329 6 November 1884 7 4 December – Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens are convicted of murder in the survival cannibalism case of R v. Dudley and Stephens. 6 December – Representation of the People Act ("Third Reform Act") extends the franchise uniformly across the U.K. in county as well as borough constituencies to all male tenants paying a £10 rental or occupying land to that value. This extends the franchise from around 3,040,000 voters to around 5,700,000.Craig Fred W. S. British electoral facts, 1832–1987 1989 Parliamentary Research Services 0-900178-30-2 5th Aldershot 20057069 9 December – Dudley and Stephens receive the mandatory death penalty with a recommendation for clemency and on 13 December are told that their penalties have been commuted to six months' imprisonment. Publications A New English Dictionary on historical principles, part 1, edited by James A. H. Murray. Arthur Conan Doyle's (anonymous) story based on the disappearance of the Mary Celeste, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (Cornhill Magazine, January). Arnold Toynbee's lectures (collected posthumously) Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England. Births 18 January – Arthur Ransome, children's author and journalist (died 1967) 10 February – Frederick Hawksworth, mechanical engineer (died 1976) 12 February – Norman Jewson, Arts and Crafts architect (died 1975) 19 February – Clement Davies, Welsh politician, leader of the Liberal Party (died 1962) 6 March – R. Williams Parry, Welsh poet (died 1956) 13 March – Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (died 1941) 1 April – J. C. Squire, writer and critic (died 1958) 10 May – Olga Petrova, English-born actress (died 1977) 5 June – Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist (died 1969) 13 June – Gerald Gardner, founder of the Wiccan religion (died 1964) 21 June Claude Auchinleck, field marshal (died 1981) Gordon Lowe, British tennis player (died 1972) 29 June William Whitworth, admiral (died 1973) Francis Brett Young, novelist (died 1954) 19 July Maurice Nicoll, psychiatrist (died 1953) Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, grandson of Queen Victoria (died 1954) 23 July – Dilly Knox, cryptanalyst (died 1943) 10 August – Douglas Macmillan, founder of Macmillan Cancer Support (died 1969) 6 October – MacDonald Gill, designer (died 1947) 18 October – Manny Shinwell, politician (died 1986) 24 November – Frank Foley, Secret Intelligence Service officer and humanitarian (died 1958) 25 November – Alexander Cadogan, diplomat (died 1968) 17 December – Alison Uttley, children's writer (died 1976) 19 December – Stanley Unwin, publisher (died 1968) Deaths 8 January – Eugenius Birch, pier engineer (born 1818) 4 February – Lord Edward Thynne, politician and aristocrat (born 1807) 8 February – Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon, politician and aristocrat (born 1808) 11 February – John Hutton Balfour, botanist (born 1808) 17 February – Charles Stuart Calverley, poet and wit (born 1831) 1 March – Isaac Todhunter, mathematician (born 1820) 10 March – William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist (born 1826) 28 March – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, member of the royal family (born 1853) 1 April – Marie Litton, actress (born 1847) 5 April – John Wisden, cricketer, creator of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (born 1826) 11 April – Charles Reade, novelist (born 1814) 29 April – Sir Michael Costa, conductor (born 1808 in Italy) 29 May – Sir Henry Bartle Frere, colonial administrator (born 1815) 15 July – Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, diplomat (born 1804) 23 July – Anna Mary Howitt, writer, painter and feminist (born 1822) 6 August – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (born 1812) 10 September – George Bentham, botanist (born 1800) 6 November Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (born 1833) George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist (born 1884) 3 December – Jane C. Bonar, Scottish hymnwriter (born 1821) 4 December – Alice Mary Smith, composer (born 1839) 20 December – William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (born 1808) References 1884 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1884 by country Category:1880s in the United Kingdom Category:1884 in Europe