1894 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1894 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 (until 2 March), Earl of Rosebery, Liberal

Events

• 15 February — 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb.^[1]
• 1 March — Local Government Act creates parish councils, and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.^[2]
• 3 March — William Ewart Gladstone (at the age of 84) resigns as Prime Minister over high Navy estimates.^[2]
• 5 March — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
• 11 April — Britain establishes a Protectorate over Uganda.^[2]
• 12 April — The annual Budget establishes death duties.^[2]
• 21 April — Debut of the George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man in London.^[3]
• 14 May — Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool, Lancashire.
• 21 May — The Manchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.^[3]
• 23 June — A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, kills 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground.^[4][5]
• 30 June — Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.^[3]
• 2 August — Death duties introduced.^[3]
• September — British Association for the Advancement of Science inaugurates an Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom.^[6]
• 28 September — Michael Marks forms the partnership of Marks & Spencer with Thomas Spencer,^[7]opening its first store in Manchester.^[8]
• 13 October — Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs meet in the first Merseyside derby.^[3]

Undated

• Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.
• Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
• Alfred Harmsworth buys the London Evening News newspaper.^[9]
• Beginning of the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War.

Publications

• Edward Carpenter's book Homogenic Love, and its place in a free society.
• Arthur Conan Doyle's anthology The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• George du Maurier's novel Trilby.
• Robert Hichens' satirical novel The Green Carnation.^[10]
• Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda; also his collected sketches The Dolly Dialogues, the first major commission for the illustrator, Arthur Rackham.
• Rudyard Kipling's story collection The Jungle Book (in book form).
• The Yellow Book begins publication (April).

Births

• 10 February — Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
• 6 June — Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (died 1972)
• 23 June — King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
• 26 July — Aldous Huxley, author (died 1963)
• 13 September — J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (died 1984)
• 24 September — Tommy Armour, golfer (died 1968)
• 24 November — Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (died 1978)

Deaths

• 20 January — Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
• 8 February — R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish author of juvenile fiction (born 1825) (dies in Rome)
• 23 May — Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
• 3 December — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (born 1850) (dies in Samoa)
• 24 December — Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (born 1827)
• 29 December — Christina Rossetti, poet (born 1830)

References

See also

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