1896 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1896 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
- 2 January - The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.[1]
- 6 January - Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier of Cape Colony over the Jameson Raid.[1]
- 28 January - Walter Arnold of Kent receives the first speeding conviction for driving in excess of the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.[2]
- 12 March - Salisbury orders a military campaign to combat increasing French influence in the Sudan.[1]
- 6 April–15 April - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1896 Summer Olympics and win 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.
- 4 May - Daily Mail newspaper founded.[2]
- 8 May - Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
- 7 June - Mahdist War: British and Egyptian victory at the Battle of Ferkeh.
- 12 June - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931.
- July - Law requiring a man to walk in front of moving cars waving a red flag is repealed.[1]
- 17 August - Bridget Driscoll becomes the first person the world to be killed in a car accident.[2]
- 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.[2]
- Britain establishes a Protectorate over Ashanti.
- 22 September - Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 23 September - Kitchener captures Dongola in the Sudan.[1]
- 14 November
- An Locomotives on the Highway Act raises the speed limit for road vehicles from 4 to 14 mph.[2]
- The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is held for the first time to celebrate the Locomotives on the Highway Act.[3]
- 14 December - Glasgow Subway (pictured), the third oldest metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro, begins operations in Glasgow.
[edit] Undated
- Frederick Temple enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
[edit] Publications
- Alfred Edward Housman's poetry collection A Shropshire Lad.
[edit] Births
- 7 January - Arnold Ridley, actor (died 1984)
- 3 May - Dodie Smith, novelist and playwright (died 1990)
- 6 June - Henry Allingham, the oldest surviving British veteran of the First World War
- 19 June - Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor, American wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
- 19 July - A. J. Cronin, novelist (died 1981)
- 14 October - Bud Flanagan, comedian and singer (died 1968)
- 16 November - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (died 1980)
[edit] Deaths
- 13 August - John Everett Millais, painter (born 1829)
- 3 October - William Morris, artist, writer and socialist (born 1834)
- 11 October - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1829)
- 21 October - James Henry Greathead, engineer and inventor (born 1844, South Africa)
