1867 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1867
Events from the year 1867 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
By February – The Society of Arts inaugurates the Blue plaque scheme, advanced by William Ewart , for erecting memorial tablets on London houses previously the homes of notable people, the first being at Lord Byron 's birthplace, 24 Holles Street, off Cavendish Square .[ 1]
11 February – abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle .[ 2]
5 March – Fenian Rising in Ireland .[ 3]
15 March – 'Conference of Trades' first meets; later forming the nucleus of the Trades Union Congress .[ 3]
16 March – first publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery , in The Lancet
29 March – Canadian Confederation : the British North America Act receives Royal Assent , forming the Dominion of Canada . This unites the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario ), New Brunswick , and Nova Scotia as of 1 July.[ 4] Ottawa becomes the capital, and John A. Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first Prime Minister .
1 April – Strait Settlement of Singapore , formerly ruled from Calcutta , becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London .
11 May
18 May – John Stuart Mill 's motion to give women the vote is decisively rejected by the all-male House of Commons .[ 3]
20 May – Laying of the foundation stone of the Royal Albert Hall by Queen Victoria.[ 5]
22 May – Henry Chaplin 's Hermit wins the Epsom Derby in a snowstorm at 1000:15 odds, ruining Chaplin's rival in love, Harry, Marquess of Hastings , who has bet heavily against him.[ 6]
3 June – The sport of lacrosse is introduced from Canada .[ 5]
1 July – Canadian Confederation : British North America Act of 29 March comes into force, creating the Dominion of Canada , the first independent dominion in the British Empire .
14 July – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey ,[ 5] patented it in the UK on 7 May.[ 7] [ 8]
15 August – Benjamin Disraeli 's Second Reform Act enfranchises many urban working men and adds 938,000 men to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales .[ 3]
4 September – Sheffield Wednesday F.C. are founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield .
24–28 September – First of the Lambeth Conferences held.
October – Thomas Barnardo opens his first shelter for homeless children, in Stepney .[ 3]
12 October – End of penal transportation , as the last convict ship , the Hougoumont Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to Western Australia .[ 3] Fenians are among the transportees.
6 November – National Society for Women's Suffrage , the first such national campaign group, is formed by Lydia Becker .
8 November – An underground explosion at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda kills 178.[ 9]
23 November – The three 'Manchester Martyrs ' are hanged in Salford for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from imprisonment on 18 September.
28 November – Opening of Baylis' Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House, Glasgow , which becomes the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in May 1869.[ 10]
13 December – Clerkenwell explosion at Clerkenwell Prison during a Fenian escape attempt; 12 local residents are killed.[ 3]
Undated
Publications
Births
8 January – Thomas Coward , ornithologist (died 1933)
11 January – John Ernest Adamson , English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (died 1950 in South Africa)[ 12]
28 January – Agnata Butler , née Ramsay, classical scholar (died 1931)
4 February – Alexander Godley , general (died 1957)
27 February – Nina Boucicault , actress (died 1950)
15 March – Lionel Johnson , poet (died 1902)
10 April – George William Russell (Æ), Irish-born nationalist, poet and artist (died 1935)
13 April – Sammy Woods , cricketer (died 1931)
3 May
26 May – Mary of Teck , consort of George V (died 1953)
27 May – Arnold Bennett , novelist (died 1931)
2 June – William Goodenough , admiral (died 1945)
17 June – Flora Finch , silent film comedian (died 1940 in the United States)
2 July – Herbert Prior , actor (died 1954)
24 July – E. F. Benson , author (died 1940)
2 August – Ernest Dowson , Decadent poet and fiction writer (died 1900)
3 August – Stanley Baldwin , Prime Minister (died 1947)
6 August – Sam Mussabini , athletics coach (died 1927)
9 August – Evelina Haverfield , suffragette (died 1920)
14 August – John Galsworthy , novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
19 September – Arthur Rackham , illustrator (died 1939)
21 September – Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe , politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1958)
25 September – Katharine Glasier , née Conway, writer and socialist (died 1950)
7 November – George Paish , economist (died 1957)
24 November – Detmar Blow , Arts and Crafts architect (died 1939)
2 December – Alec B. Francis , actor (died 1934)
Undated – Laura Anning Bell , née Richard, artist (died 1950)
Deaths
16 January – William Marsden , surgeon (born 1796)
5 February – Henry Crabb Robinson , man of letters, lawyer and diarist (born 1775)
18 April – Sir Robert Smirke , Greek Revival architect (born 1780)
27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover , Welsh-born industrialist and politician (born 1802)
22 May – Edward Hodges Baily , sculptor (born 1788)
19 July – Maria Abdy , poet (born 1797)
4 August – William Crawshay II , industrialist (born 1788)
25 August – Michael Faraday , chemist and physicist (born 1791)
21 November – John Ogilvie , Scottish lexicographer (born 1797)
1 December
27 December – Maria Foote , actress (born 1797)
30 December – Sarah Booth , actress (born 1793)
Undated – James Pollard , painter and aquatint engraver of equine subjects (born 1792)
References
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