1861 in the United Kingdom

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1861 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1861 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Unknown dates 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 20 February - Storms damage the Crystal Palace in London and caused the collapse of the steeple of Chichester Cathedral. ^[1]
• 30 March - Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of Thallium (see Discovery of the chemical elements).
• 27 August - Last execution in Britain for attempted murder — Martin Doyle in Chester.
• 24 October - The HMS Warrior, the world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled armored battleship was completed and commissioned.
• 25 November - Tenement collapses in the Old Town of Edinburgh and buries 50 — rescuers find 15 of them alive.

[edit] Unknown dates

• James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the principle of three-colour photography (see picture). ^[2]
• The death penalty is limited to murder, embezzlement, piracy and to acts of arson perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots.
• British Empire establishes bases in Lagos to stop the slave trade.
• Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management published.

[edit] Births

• 12 June - William Attewell, cricketer (d. 1927)
• 19 June - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, soldier (d. 1928)
• 20 June - Frederick Hopkins, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)
• 23 September - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, poet and novelist (d. 1907)
• 16 October - J. B. Bury, historian (d. 1927)

[edit] Deaths

• 29 January - Catherine Gore, novelist and dramatist (b. 1799)
• 29 June - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (b. 1806)
• 14 December - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)

[edit] References