1867 in the United Kingdom

1867 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1867 English cricket season

Events from the year 1867 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

Incumbents

• Monarch — Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister — Earl of Derby, Conservative

Events

• 5 March — Fenian rising in Ireland.^[1]
• 15 March — 'Conference of Trades' first meets; later forming the nucleus of the Trades Union Congress.^[1]
• 16 March — First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
• 29 March — The British North America Act receives Royal Assent, forming the Dominion of Canada in an event known as Confederation. This unites the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as of July 1. Ottawa becomes the capital, and John A. Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first prime minister.
• 1 April — Strait Settlement of Singapore, formerly ruled from Calcutta, becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London.
• 18 May — John Stuart Mill's motion to give women the vote is decisively rejected by the House of Commons.^[1]
• 20 May — Laying of the foundation stone of the Royal Albert Hall by Queen Victoria.^[2]
• 22 May — Henry Chaplin’s Hermit wins the Epsom Derby in a snowstorm at 1000:15 odds, ruining Chaplin’s rival in love, Harry, Marquess of Hastings, who had bet heavily against him.^[3]
• 3 June — The sport of lacrosse introduced from Canada.^[2]
• 1 July — British North America Act comes into force, creating the Dominion of Canada, the first independent dominion in the British Empire.
• 14 July — The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.^[2]
• 15 August — Benjamin Disraeli's Second Reform Act enfranchises many urban working men and adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.^[1]
• 4 September — Sheffield Wednesday F.C. are founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
• 24 September–28 September — First of the Lambeth Conferences held.
• October
  • Thomas Barnardo opens his first shelter for homeless children, in Stepney.^[1]
  • End of penal transportation, as the last convict ship sails for Australia.^[1]
• 8 November — An underground explosion at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda kills 178.^[4]
• 23 November — The 'Manchester Martyrs' are hanged in Manchester for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish prisoners from jail.
• 28 November — Opening of Baylis's Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House, Glasgow, which becomes the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in May 1869.^[5]
• 13 December — Explosion at Clerkenwell gaol during a Fenian escape attempt; 12 killed.^[1]

Undated

• The Summer assize for Berkshire is moved from Abingdon to Reading, effectively making the latter the county town.
• The Royal Society of Arts inaugurates the Blue plaque scheme, advanced by William Ewart, for erecting memorial tablets on London houses previously the homes of notable people, the first being at Lord Byron's birthplace, 24 Holles Street, off Cavendish Square.^[6]
• Wasps Rugby Football Club formed in Middlesex.
• Henry Enfield Roscoe isolates vanadium.
• Formal rules for boxing, prohibiting bareknuckle fights, drawn up under the patronage of the Marquis of Queensbury.^[1]

Publications

• Matthew Arnold's lyric poem Dover Beach.
• Walter Bagehot's treatise The English Constitution.
• Rhoda Broughton's novel Cometh up as a Flower.^[7]
• Ouida's novel Under Two Flags.
• Anthony Trollope's novels The Last Chronicle of Barset and Phineas Finn (serialisation).

Births

• 10 April — George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (died 1935)
• 13 April — Sammy Woods, cricketer (died 1931)
• 3 May — J.T. Hearne, cricketer (died 1944)
• 26 May — Mary of Teck, consort of King George V (died 1953)
• 27 May — Arnold Bennett, novelist (died 1931)
• 3 August — Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)
• 14 August — John Galsworthy, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
• 19 September — Arthur Rackham, illustrator (died 1939)

Deaths

• 27 April — Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)
• 22 May — Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor (born 1788)
• 4 August — William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)
• 25 August — Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist (born 1791)
• 1 December — William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia (born 1793)

References

See also

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