1869 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom.
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Events
- 6 March — The first international cycle race is held at Crystal Palace, London.[1]
- 31 March — The Conservative Party holds both seats in the Blackburn by-election[2]
- 22 May — Sainsbury's first store opened, in Drury Lane, London.[3]
- 10 June — An underground explosion at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda kills 53.[4]
- 26 July — Irish Church Act disestablishes the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871.[5]
- 27 August — University of Oxford win the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University.[1]
- October — The 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[6]
- 11 October — Red River Rebellion against British forces in Canada.[5]
- 16 October — England's first residential women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.
- 4 November — The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published.
- 19 November — Britain takes over administration of Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company.[5]
- 22 November — In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched (it is one of the last clippers built, and the only one surviving to the present day).[1]
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