1890 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1890 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative
[edit] Events
- 4 January - First edition of the Daily Graphic, the first British 'picture paper'.[1]
- 4 March - The longest bridge in Britain, the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) in Scotland, is opened.[2]
- 12 May - The first official County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets.
- 1 July - Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany; Britain cedes Heligoland to Germany in return for Pemba and Zanzibar.[1]
- 21 July - Battersea Bridge over the River Thames opens in London.[2]
- 8 September - the future King Edward VII becomes involved in the Royal Baccarat Scandal.
- September - Southampton Dock Strike of 1890.
- 22 October - Colony of Western Australia granted self-governing status.[1]
- November - Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as the New Scotland Yard.
- 4 November - London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opens.[2] It runs a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.
- 18 December - British East Africa Company takes control of Uganda.[1].
[edit] Undated
- Prosecution of Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln for using ritualistic practices ends.
- Construction of the first electrical power station, at Deptford.[1]
[edit] Publications
- Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four.
- Volume 1 of James George Frazer's study in religion, The Golden Bough.
[edit] Births
- 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist (died 1956)
- 17 February - Ronald Fisher, biologist (died 1962)
- 25 February - Dame Myra Hess, pianist (died 1965)
- 31 March - William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
- 16 April - Fred Root, cricketer (died 1954)
- 23 May - Herbert Marshall, actor (died 1966)
- 16 June - Stan Laurel, actor (died 1965)
- 15 September - Agatha Christie, writer (died 1976)
- 24 September - A. P. Herbert, politician and writer (died 1971)
- 17 October - Roy Kilner, cricketer (died 1928)
- 15 November - Richmal Crompton, writer (died 1969)
- 5 December - David Bomberg, painter (died 1957)
- 30 December - Lanoe Hawker, fighter pilot (died 1916)
[edit] Deaths
- 11 April - Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man), oddity (born 1862)
- 20 July - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector (born 1818)
- 11 August - John Henry Newman, Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1801)
- 4 October - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (born 1829)
- 20 October - Richard Francis Burton, explorer (born 1821)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 317-318. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
