1894 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1894 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal (until 2 March), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb.[1]
- 1 March - Local Government Act creates parish councils, and gives women the vote in local (but not national) elections.[2]
- 3 March - William Gladstone resigns over high Navy estimates.[2]
- 5 March - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
- 11 April - Britain establishes a Protectorate over Uganda.[2]
- 12 April - The annual Budget establishes death duties.[2]
- 21 April - Debut of the George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man in London.[3]
- 14 May - Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool, Lancashire.
- 21 May - The Manchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.[3]
- 30 June - Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.[3]
- 2 August - Death duties introduced.[3]
- 28 September - Marks & Spencer starts life as a market stall in Leeds Kirkgate Market.
- 13 October - Everton F.C. and Liverpool F.C. meet in the first Merseyside derby.[3]
[edit] Undated
- Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.
- Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
- Alfred Harmsworth buys the London newspaper Evening News.[4]
[edit] Publications
- Arthur Conan Doyle's anthology The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- George du Maurier's novel Trilby.
- Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda.
- Rudyard Kipling's novel The Jungle Book.
[edit] Births
- 10 February - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
- 6 June - Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (died 1972)
- 23 June - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
- 26 July - Aldous Huxley, author (died 1963)
- 13 September - J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (died 1984)
- 24 September - Tommy Armour, golfer (died 1968)
- 24 November - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (died 1978)
[edit] Deaths
- 20 January - Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
- 23 May - Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
- 3 December - Robert Louis Stevenson, author (born 1850)
- 24 December - Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (born 1827)
- 29 December - Christina Rossetti, poet (born 1830)
[edit] References
- ^ Propaganda by Deed. Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 321-322. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 448–449. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
