1871 in the United Kingdom

1871 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1871 English cricket season

Events from the year 1871 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 — William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal

Events

• 1 January — Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland by the Irish Church Act 1869 comes into effect.^[1]
• 26 January — Rugby Football Union established in London.^[2]
• 10 February — Great Gale in the North Sea: 28 ships wrecked and total fatalities are estimated at over fifty, including six crew of Bridlington life-boat Harbinger.
• 7 March — First rugby international; Scotland v. England.^[1]
• 21 March — Marriage of Princess Louise to John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India.
• 29 March — The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.^[2]
• 2 April — Census in the United Kingdom, the first to record economic and mental status.
• 26 May — Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act creating four annual bank holidays (five in Scotland).^[2]
• 29 May — First bank holiday held on Whit Monday.^[2]
• 18 June — University Tests Act removes religious tests at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.
• 29 June — Trade unions legalised by act of parliament.^[2]
• 20 July — C. W. Alcock proposes that 'a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association', giving birth to the FA Cup.^[2]
• 17 August — Regulation of the Forces Act centralises and regularises control of the British Army as part of the Cardwell Reforms, creating a structure of regional Brigade (Regimental) Districts.^[1]
• 1 November — Sale of commissions in the British Army abolished as part of the Cardwell Reforms.^[3]
• 10 November — Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika,^[2] and greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
• 25 November — First performance of The Bells starring Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London.^[4]

Undated

• George Biddell Airy discovers astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.
• Reading Football Club formed.
• Neath RFC founded.
• Streatham-Croydon RFC founded.
• The native-bred Red Kite becomes extinct in England.^[5]

Publications

• William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth.^[6]
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) novel The Coming Race.
• Lewis Carroll's children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.^[1]
• George Tomkyns Chesney's story The Battle of Dorking.
• Charles Darwin's work The Descent of Man.^[1]
• George Eliot's novel Middlemarch.
• Serialisation of Anthony Trollope's novel The Eustace Diamonds.

Births

• 18 February — Harry Brearley, inventor (died 1948)
• 19 March — Schofield Haigh, cricketer (died 1921)
• 28 March — Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
• 3 July — W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
• 24 September — Lottie Dod, athlete (died 1960)

Deaths

• 4 May - Pablo Fanque, black circus owner, popularized by The Beatles in song (born 1796)
• 11 May — John Herschel, astronomer (born 1792)
• 1 September — James Pennethorne, architect (born 1801)
• 18 October — Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (born 1791)
• 22 October — Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)
• 14 December — George Hudson, railway financier (born 1800)
• 28 December — John Henry Pratt, clergyman and mathematician (born 1809)

References

See also

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