1896 in the United Kingdom

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1896 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1896 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 28 January - Walter Arnold of Kent receives the first speeding conviction for driving in excess of the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph. ^[1]
• 8 May - Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
• 12 June - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931.
• 27 August - The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
• 22 September - Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

[edit] Births

• 19 June - Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor, American wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
• 16 November - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)

[edit] Deaths

• 11 October - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
• October 21 - James Henry Greathead, engineer and inventor (b. 1844, South Africa)

[edit] References