1896 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1896
Events from the year 1896 in the United Kingdom
Incumbents
Events
January – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War : British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi , and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed.[ 1]
2 January – the Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers .[ 2]
6 January – Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier of Cape Colony over the Jameson Raid.[ 2]
10 January – American-born Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector , the Kineopticon , the first in Britain, to the Lyonsdown Photographic Club in New Barnet , the first film show to an audience in the U.K.[ 3]
14 January – Acres demonstrates his Kineopticon to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London .[ 4]
16 January – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth .
28 January
20 February – in London:[ 7]
12 March – Salisbury orders a military campaign to combat increasing French influence in the Sudan .[ 2]
29 March – the Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth in Ireland is granted the status of pontifical university by charter of the Holy See .[ 8]
6 April – the Snowdon Mountain Railway commences public operation; however, a derailment leading to one fatality causes services to be suspended for a year.[ 9]
6–15 April – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the Olympics and win 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.
16 April – the National Trust acquires (for £10) its first building for preservation, and its first property in England, Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex .
21 April – Royal Victorian Order instituted.
23 April – Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park established.[ 10] [ 11]
30 April – Peckfield Colliery disaster in Micklefield , Yorkshire: an underground explosion kills 63 men and boys and 19 pit ponies.[ 12]
4 May – Daily Mail [ 13]
8 May – in cricket , Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887 against Warwickshire .
18–20 May – Newlyn riots : protests by fishermen at Newlyn , Cornwall , against those from Lowestoft and elsewhere fishing on Sabbath , leading to military intervention.
7 June – Mahdist War : British and Egyptian victory at the Battle of Ferkeh .
12 June – Jack (J. T.) Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931.
26 July–1 August – International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress held in London.
17 August
27 August
15 September – Pope Leo XIII issues the papal bull Apostolicae curae Anglican ordinations to be "absolutely null and utterly void".
22 September – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history up to this date.
23 September – Kitchener captures Dongola in the Sudan.[ 2]
30 September–August 1897: Lock-out of Welsh slate workers at Penrhyn Quarry .[ 15] London to Brighton Veteran Car Run recreating the 1896 'Emancipation Run'
Undated
Publications
Births
7 January – Arnold Ridley , actor and playwright (died 1984)
25 January - John Moores , businessman and owner of the Littlewoods empire (died 1993)
14 February – Edward Arthur Milne , astrophysicist and mathematician (died 1950)
3 May – Dodie Smith , novelist and playwright (died 1990)
7 May – John Dunville , army officer (died of wounds 1917)
29 May – Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne , aristocrat and socialite (died 1979)
1 June – Sydney Kyte , bandleader (died 1981)
6 June – Henry Allingham , became the oldest surviving British veteran of the First World War and briefly the world's oldest man (died 2009)
19 June
25 June – Alfred Anderson , Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War (died 2005)
28 July – Guy Salisbury-Jones , Army major-general (died 1985)
28 July – Joyce Bishop , educator (died 1993)[ 20]
19 July – A. J. Cronin , Scottish novelist (died 1981)
14 August – Albert Ball , flying ace (killed in action 1917)
14 October – Bud Flanagan , comedian and singer (died 1968)
16 November – Oswald Mosley , leader of the British Union of Fascists (died 1980)
17 November – Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, later Mary, Lady Heath , aviator and athlete (died 1939)
15 December – Miles Dempsey , general (died 1969)
Deaths
8 January – Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn , judge (born 1813)
17 January – Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover , Welsh patron of the arts (born 1802)[ 21]
19 January – Bernhard Gillam , political cartoonist (born 1856)
25 January – Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton , painter and sculptor specialising in classical subjects (born 1830)
14 February – George Selwyn Marryat , fly fisherman (born 1840)
10 June – Amelia Dyer , baby farm murderer (born 1837; hanged)
23 June – Sir Joseph Prestwich , geologist (born 1812)
7 July – Charles Thomas Wooldridge , soldier and uxoricide commemorated in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (born 1866; hanged)
23 July – Caroline Martyn , Christian socialist and trade unionist (born 1867)
12 August – Sir Harry Lumsden , general (born 1821)
13 August – Sir John Everett Millais , painter (born 1829)
18 August – Frederick Nicholls Crouch , composer and cellist (born 1808)
2 May – Emma Darwin , née Wedgwood, wife of Charles Darwin (died 1896)
3 October – William Morris , artist, writer and socialist (born 1834)
6 October – Sir James Abbott , army officer and colonial administrator in British India (born 1807)
8 October – George du Maurier , cartoonist and novelist (born 1834 in France)
11 October – Edward White Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1829)
21 October – James Henry Greathead , engineer and inventor (born 1844 in South Africa)
November – Margaret Eleanor Parker , social activist, first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (born 1827)
26 November – Coventry Patmore , poet (born 1823)
10 December – Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet , admiral of the fleet (born 1806)
See also
References
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^ Kardas, Handel (April 1997). "Britain's worst railway opening day – Ladas and the Snowdon Mountain Railway". Railway World . 58 (683): 66–71. ^ "The History of Pleasure Beach, Blackpool" . Pleasure Beach Theme Park . Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010 .^ "How Blackpool Pleasure Beach Began" . Live Blackpool . 15 November 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2021 .^ "Micklefield Colliery Explosion - Leeds - 1896" . Northern Mine Research Society. Retrieved 21 May 2021 .^ a b c d Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 ^ Nicholls, Robert (1996). Trafford Park: the First Hundred Years . Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd. ISBN 1-86077-013-4 ^ Lindsay, Jean (1974). A History of the North Wales Slate Industry . Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6264-X ^ "Parliament". The Mail . London. 17 August 1896. p. 5. ^ "London to Brighton Veteran Car Run" . Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2008 .^ Stratton, Michael; Trinder, Barrie (2000). Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology . London: E. & F.N. Spon. p. 75. ISBN 0-419-24680-0 ^ Taylor, Rosemary (2001). Exploring the East End . Walks Through History. London: Breedon Books. ISBN 1859832709 ^ Bowden (23 September 2004). "Bishop, Dame (Margaret) Joyce (1896–1993), headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/51446 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900 . New York: Richards Rosen Press. p. 91. OCLC 252454075 .
