1860 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch — Victoria
- Prime Minister — The Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)
Events
- 1 January — Cray Wanderers Football Club formed in St Mary Cray, north Kent.
- 25 January — HMS Prince of Wales, a 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard.
- February — Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom recommends erection of the Palmerston Forts.
- 27 February — Paddle steamer Nimrod is wrecked off St David's Head in Wales and 45 people are killed.
- March — Food and Drugs Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.[1]
- 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
- 17 March — First Taranaki War between Maoris and British colonists in New Zealand begins.[1]
- April — The last major bare-knuckle boxing match in England ends in a draw.[1]
- 9 July — The Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses, the first nursing school based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
- 22 August — The British navy assists the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi to cross from Sicily to the mainland of Italy.
- 30 August — The first street trams in Britain are introduced in Birkenhead.[2]
- October — John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
- 5 October — Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.
- 17 October — The first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick in Scotland,[2][3] sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it is not truly open until the following year.[1]
- 18 October — Second Opium War:
- Lord Elgin orders his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burns to the ground.
- The first Convention of Peking formally ends the War.
- November — The 'Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs', predecessor of the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, is established in London by Mary Tealby.
- 1 December
- Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
- The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.[4][5]
- 29 December — The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, HMS Warrior is launched on the Thames.[2]
Publications
- Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White.
- Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (serialisation begins).
- George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss.
- Thomas Love Peacock's last novel Gryll Grange (serialisation).
- Robert Smith Surtees' comic novel Plain or Ringlets? (concludes publication).
- Anthony Trollope's novel Framley Parsonage (serialisation in the new Cornhill Magazine).
- The collection of broad-church essays on Christianity Essays and Reviews.
- The Western Morning News is first published (Plymouth, 3 January).[6]
Births
- 6 March — Frederick George Jackson, Arctic explorer (died 1938)
- 2 May — William Bayliss, physiologist (died 1924)
- 9 May — J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937)
- 22 July — Frederick Rolfe, writer and artist (died 1913)
- 3 August — W. K. Dickson, inventor (died 1935)
- 7 August — Alan Leo, born William F. Allan, astrologer (died 1917)
- Lancelot Speed, illustrator (died 1931)
Deaths
- 27 January — Thomas Brisbane, astronomer (born 1773)
- 25 March — James Braid, surgeon (born 1795)
- 12 May — Sir Charles Barry, architect (born 1795)
- 16 May — Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (born 1792)
- 3 August — Henry Wyndham, British Army General and Conservative Party politician (born 1790)
- 31 October — Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral (born 1775)
- 14 December — George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)
References
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