1894 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1894 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb.
- 5 March - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
- 14 May - Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool, Lancashire.
- 30 June - Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.
- Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
[edit] Births
- 10 February - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
- 23 June - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
- 26 July - Aldous Huxley, author (d. 1963)
- 13 September - J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (d. 1984)
- 24 September - Tommy Armour, golfer (d. 1968)
- 24 November - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (d. 1978)
[edit] Deaths
- 20 January - Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
- 23 May - Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (b. 1800)
- 3 December - Robert Louis Stevenson, author (b. 1850)
