1862 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1862 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
- 6 January - French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
- 16 January - Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 miners die in a disaster at the Hartley Colliery in Northumberland.[1]
- 15 March - Riots in Stalybridge, Lancashire, over cotton recession.[2]
- 21 March - James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.[3]
- 1 May - International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in South Kensington.[2]
- 1 July - Marriage of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
- 14 September - a British national, Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan by samurai in the Namamugi Incident. Three companions escaped, though two were seriously injured.
- 11 October - Jessie M'Lachlan executed having been found guilty in the Sandyford murder case in Scotland.
- November - Criminal law amended to make robbery with violence punishable by flogging.[2]
[edit] Undated
- Charles Thomas Longley enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the Thames Embankment in London.[2]
[edit] Publications
- Serialisation of George Eliot's novel Romola.
[edit] Births
- 29 January - Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
- 2 July - William Henry Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
- 5 August - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
- 26 August - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
- 3 October - Johnny Briggs, cricketer (d. 1902)
[edit] Deaths
- 3 April - James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (b. 1800)
- 29 June - James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (b. 1799)
- 18 December - Lucas Barrett, naturalist and geologist (b. 1837)
- John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)
[edit] References
- ^ Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Disaster 1862
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 283-284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
