1869 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 6 March - the first international cycle race is held at Crystal Palace, London.[1]
- 26 July - Irish Church Act 1869 disestablishes the Church of Ireland.[2]
- 27 August - University of Oxford win the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University.[1]
- 11 October - Red River Rebellion against British forces in Canada.[2]
- 16 October - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, is founded at Hitchin.
- 4 November - The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published.
- 19 November - Britain takes over administration of Canada from the Hudson Bay Company.[2]
- 22 November - In Dumbarton, Scotland the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched (it was one of the last clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).[1]
[edit] Undated
- Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.
[edit] Publications
- R. D. Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone.
[edit] Births
- 14 February - Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
- 3 March - Henry Wood, conductor (died 1944)
- 14 March - Algernon Blackwood, writer (died 1951)
- 18 March - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (died 1940)
- 10 August - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (died 1943)
- 20 November - Herbert Tudor Buckland, seminal Arts and crafts architect (died 1951)
[edit] Deaths
- 12 September - Peter Roget, lexicographer (born 1779)
- 23 October - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (born 1799)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 290-291. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
