1869 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1869
Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
7 January – Amateur Swimming Association formed in London.[ 1]
30 January – the new magazine Vanity Fair lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini , portraying Benjamin Disraeli .
February – Charity Organization Society established in London as the Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity.
February–April – the Conservative local authority in Liverpool opens the first council housing in Europe, St Martin's Cottages (tenement flats).[ 2]
6 March – the first international cycle race is held at Crystal Palace, London .[ 3]
31 March – the Conservative Party holds both seats in the Blackburn by-election .[ 4]
21 April – at least fifteen people are killed by collapse of machinery at Delabole Quarry in Cornwall.[ 5]
15 May – General Examination for Women of the University of London first held, sat by the "London Nine".
22 May – Sainsbury's first store opened, in Drury Lane , London .[ 6]
2 June – seven men are tried at Mold for attacking a colliery manager following a pay cut. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.[ 7]
10 June – an underground explosion at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda kills 53.[ 8]
24 June – Sea Birds Preservation Act passed, preventing killing of designated species during the breeding season, the first Act to offer any protection to wild birds in the UK.[ 9]
26 July – Irish Church Act disestablishes the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871.[ 10]
2 August – Municipal Corporation (Election) Act (Municipal Franchise Act ) restores to unmarried women ratepayers the franchise to vote in local elections and enables them to become Poor Law Guardians , through an amendment moved by John Bright .
9 August
27 August – Oxford University Boat Club wins the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University .[ 3]
October – the 'Edinburgh Seven ', led by Sophia Jex-Blake , start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School , the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[ 11]
11 October – Red River Rebellion against British forces in Canada .[ 10]
16 October – England's first residential university-level women's college , the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge , is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon .
4 November – the first issue of scientific journal Nature Norman Lockyer .
19 November – the Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada under its letters patent back to the British Crown .[ 10]
22 November – clipper ship Cutty Sark Dumbarton , Scotland ; she is one of the last clippers built, and the only one to survive in the UK.[ 3]
31 December – last day on which the half farthing coin is legal tender in the U.K.
Undated
Publications
Births
14 January – Dennis Eadie , Scottish-born character actor (died 1928)
26 January – George Douglas Brown , novelist (died 1902)
14 February – C. T. R. Wilson , Scottish 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)
27 March – J. R. Clynes , politician (died 1949)
29 March – Edwin Lutyens , architect (died 1944)
9 May – Tyrone Power Sr. , actor (died 1931 in the United States)
18 May – Lucy Beaumont , actress (died 1937)
7 June – Lamorna Birch , born Samuel John Birch, painter (died 1955)
11 June – Walford Bodie , stage magician (died 1939)
17 June – Flora Finch , comic performer, silent film star (died 1940 in the United States)
19 June – Christopher Addison , anatomist and politician (died 1951)
12 July – Conrad Noel , Anglican vicar and socialist (died 1942)
13 July – Florence Perry , opera singer (died 1949)
10 August – Lawrence Binyon , poet and scholar (died 1943)
16 August – Vincent Lambert , Suspected Vampire (Unknown date of death)
6 September – Walford Davies , composer (died 1941)
24 September – Maud Cunnington , archaeologist (died 1951)
3 October – Robert W. Paul , pioneer of cinematography (died 1943)
15 November – Charlotte Mew , poet (suicide 1928)
20 November – Herbert Tudor Buckland , seminal Arts and crafts architect (died 1951)
26 November – Princess Maud of Wales , queen consort of Norway (died 1938)
30 December – Stephen Leacock , humorist and economist (died 1944 in Canada)
Deaths
30 January
7 February – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey , peer, Whig politician, courtier and cricketer (born 1797)
11 March – F. G. Loring , writer and naval officer (died 1951)
20 March – John Pascoe Grenfell , admiral in the Brazilian Navy (born 1800)
30 April – Sir Arthur William Buller , politician (born 1808)
18 May – Peter Cunningham , literary scholar and antiquarian (born 1816)
25 May – Sir Charles Fremantle , Royal Navy officer (born 1800)
10 June – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone , painter (born 1800)
11 July – William Jerdan , journalist (born 1782)
2 August – Thomas Medwin , poet, biographer and translator (born 1788)
5 August – Emily Eden , poet and novelist (born 1797)
8 August – Roger Fenton , photographer (born 1819)
11 September – Thomas Graham , chemist (born 1805)
12 September – Peter Mark Roget , lexicographer (born 1779)
18 September – Henry Phillpotts , Bishop of Exeter (born 1778)
20 September – George Patton, Lord Glenalmond , judge and politician, suicide (born 1803)
23 October – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , Prime Minister (born 1799)
9 November – Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor , landowner and philanthropist in Wales (born 1797)
References
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