1880 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1880
Events from the year 1880 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January–March – great fog continues to engulf London .[ 1]
21 January – an underground firedamp explosion at Fair Lady Pit, Leycett , in the North Staffordshire Coalfield , kills 62 coal miners .[ 2] [ 3]
31 January – training frigate HMS Atalanta leaves Bermuda bound for Falmouth but is lost in the Atlantic with all 281 on board.
2 February – the first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven .[ 4]
8 March – the Conservative Party lose the general election to the Liberal Party .[ 5]
19 March – Rev. Sidney Faithorn Green is imprisoned for over 2 years in Lancaster Castle and will be deprived of his parish in Manchester as a result of proceedings under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 .
3 April – Gilbert and Sullivan 's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance London debut at the Opera Comique on the Strand .[ 6]
18 April – William Ewart Gladstone succeeds Benjamin Disraeli as Prime Minister . This is Gladstone's second term as prime minister.[ 5]
19 April – Second Anglo-Afghan War : British victory at the Battle of Ahmed Khel .
20 April – Victoria University chartered and incorporates Owens College, Manchester .
20 May – foundation stone laid for Truro Cathedral in Cornwall , the first to be built on a new site since the 13th century.[ 7]
15 July – an underground firedamp explosion at Risca Colliery in the Crosskeys district of Monmouthshire kills 120 coal miners[ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
27 July – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand .
2 August – Time in the United Kingdom : Greenwich Mean Time adopted as the legal standard throughout Great Britain by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act.[ 11]
26 August – Elementary Education Act ("Mundella 's Act") enforces school attendance up to the age of ten in England and Wales.[ 12]
1 September – Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Kandahar .
6–8 September – first cricket Test match held in Britain.[ 6]
8 September – an underground explosion at Seaham Colliery , County Durham , kills 164 coal miners.[ 13]
October – Irish tenants ostracise landholder's agent Charles Boycott .[ 6]
29 October – Wells lifeboat disaster : RNLI life-boat Eliza Adams of Wells-next-the-Sea , Norfolk , capsizes on service; 11 of 13 crew lost.[ 14]
17 November – the University of London awards the first degrees to women.[ 11]
27 November – Rev. Richard Enraght is imprisoned for 49 days in Warwick Prison and deprived of his parish in Birmingham as a result of proceedings under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 .
10 December – an underground firedamp explosion at Naval Steam Colliery, Penygraig , in the Rhondda , kills 101 coal miners.[ 15]
15 December – first performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society Quicksands ) at the Gaiety Theatre, London .[ 16]
16 December
20 December – First Boer War: British forces defeated in the action at Bronkhorstspruit .
24 December – first festival of Nine Lessons and Carols devised by Edward White Benson , at this time Bishop of Truro .[ 17]
Undated
Publications
Births
28 January – Herbert Strudwick , cricketer (died 1970)
8 February – Arthur Greenwood , politician (died 1954)
17 February – Reginald Farrer , botanist (died 1920)
1 March – Lytton Strachey , biographer and critic, member of the Bloomsbury Group (died 1932)[ 19]
6 March – Jameson Adams , Antarctic explorer, Royal Navy officer and civil servant (died 1962)
17 April – Leonard Woolley , archaeologist (died 1960)
30 April – Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie , cartoonist (died 1967)
25 May – Alf Common , footballer (died 1946)
21 June – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp , economist (died 1941)
12 August – Radclyffe Hall , author and poet (died 1943)
13 August – Mary Macarthur , trade unionist (died 1921)
23 August – Wyndham Standing , English actor (died 1963)
16 September – Alfred Noyes , poet (died 1958)
22 September – Christabel Pankhurst , suffragette (died 1958)
23 September – John Boyd Orr , physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
15 October – Marie Stopes , birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (died 1958)
28 October – Saxon Sydney-Turner , civil servant, eccentric, member of the Bloomsbury Group (died 1962)
2 November – John Foulds , classical music composer (died 1939)
9 November – Giles Gilbert Scott , architect (died 1960)
10 November – Jacob Epstein , American-born sculptor (died 1959)
25 November – Elsie J. Oxenham , children's novelist (died 1960)
Deaths
27 January – Edward Middleton Barry , architect (born 1830)
2 February – Sir George Hamilton Seymour , diplomat (born 1797)
3 April – John Laing , bibliographer and Free Church of Scotland minister (born 1809)
12 April – Joseph Brown , Roman Catholic bishop (born 1796)
6 May – Charles Meredith , Welsh-born politician in Tasmania (born 1811)
10 May – John Goss , church composer (born 1800)
27 May – Alfred Swaine Taylor , toxicologist, "father of British forensic medicine" (born 1806)
30 May – James Planché , dramatist (born 1796)
12 July – Tom Taylor , dramatist and journalist (born 1817)
15 August – Adelaide Neilson , actress (born 1848)
22 August – Benjamin Ferrey , architect (born 1810)
9 September – Charles Lowder , Anglican priest prominent in Anglo-Catholicism and humanitarian (born 1820)[ 20]
18 September – Sir Fitzroy Kelly , lawyer and politician, last Chief Baron of the Exchequer (born 1796)
23 September – Geraldine Jewsbury , novelist and woman of letters (born 1812)
25 September – John Tarleton , admiral (born 1811)
5 October – William Lassell , astronomer (born 1799)
30 November – Jeanette Threlfall , hymnwriter (born 1821)
22 December – George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), novelist and woman of letters (born 1819)
31 December – John Stenhouse , Scottish chemist (born 1809)
References
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