1860 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal
[edit] Events
- March - Food and Drugs Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.[1]
- 17 March - 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]
- May - Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to be photographed. The photographer was John Jabez Edwin Mayall.[2]
- June - First golf championship, at Prestwich. Sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it was not truly open until the following year.[1]
- 22 August - the British navy assist the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
- 30 August - the first street trams in Britain are introduced in Birkenhead.[3]
- 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, The Open Championship, held in Prestwick in Scotland.[3]
- 18 October
- Second Opium War: Lord Elgin ordered his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burned to the ground.
- The first Convention of Peking formally ended the Second Opium War.
- 1 December - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in the magazine All the Year Round.
- 29 December - The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the HMS Warrior is launched.[3]
[edit] Publications
- Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations.
- George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss.
[edit] Births
- 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, astrologer (died 1917)
- Frederick George Jackson, Arctic explorer (died 1938)
- Lancelot Speed, illustrator (died 1931)
[edit] 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)
- 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)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 281-282. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
