1860 in the United Kingdom

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1860 English cricket season

Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

Incumbents

• Monarch — Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister — Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

• 1 January — Cray Wanderers Football Club formed in St Mary Cray, north Kent.
• 25 January — HMS Prince of Wales, a 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line is launched.
• February — Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom recommends erection of the Palmerston Forts.
• 27 February — Paddle steamer Nimrod is wrecked off St David's Head in Wales and 45 people are killed.
• March — Food and Drugs Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.^[1]
• 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
• 17 March — First 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, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall.^[2]
• 9 July — The Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses, the first nursing school based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
• 22 August — The British navy assists the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the mainland of Italy.
• 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 is held at Prestwick in Scotland,^[3][4] sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it is not truly open until the following year.^[1]
• 18 October — Second Opium War:
  • Lord Elgin orders his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burns to the ground.
  • The first Convention of Peking formally ends the War.
• 1 December
  • Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
  • The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.^[5][6]
• 29 December — The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, HMS Warrior is launched.^[3]

Publications

• Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White.
• Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations.
• George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss.
• Serialisation of Thomas Love Peacock's last novel Gryll Grange.
• The collection of broad-church essays on Christianity Essays and Reviews.

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)

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)
• 3 August — Henry Wyndham, British Army General and Conservative Party politician (born 1790)
• 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)

References

See also

• List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1860-1879

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