1895 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1895 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 2.2 Ongoing 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

Incumbents

• Monarch — Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister — Lord Rosebery, Liberal (until 22 June), Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

Events

• January–February — ”Great Frost”.^[1][2]
• 12 January — The National Trust is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
• 25 January — First international hockey match: Wales v. Ireland.^[3]
• 11 February — The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. (This UK Weather Record was equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
• 14 February — Premiere of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, at St. James' Theatre, London.^[4]
• 18 February — The Marquess of Queensberry leaves a message at the Albermarle Club accusing Oscar Wilde of being a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel.^[5]
• 16 March — First international hockey match played by an England team: England v. Ireland at Richmond, Surrey. England win 5–0.^[6]
• 29 March — The National Trust acquires, by donation, its first landholding for preservation, Dinas Oleu, above Barmouth in Wales.^[7]
• 30 March — Birt Acres films The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race.
• 6 April — Oscar Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, for gross indecency, after losing his libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• 2 May — British South Africa Company's territory south of the Zambesi renamed 'Rhodesia'.^[3]
• 25 May — Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour.
• 21 June — Lord Rosebery resigns as Prime Minister after defeat in a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons over the supply of cordite to the army. Lord Salisbury takes over the office.^[3]
• 15 July — Archie MacLaren scores a County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
• August — General election is won by the Conservative Party under Lord Salisbury.
• 10 August –
  • - First Henry Wood Promenade Concert held, at the Queen's Hall, London.^[4]
  • - Bolton Wanderers F.C. move into their new Burnden Park stadium.^[8]
• 29 August — The Northern Rugby Football Union is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield. This is now the governing body for the sport of Rugby League, known as the Rugby Football League.
• 11 September — The FA Cup is stolen from a shop window in Birmingham; it is never recovered.^[4]
• 14 September — Derby County F.C. move into the Baseball Ground, which was built five years ago to serve the town's unsuccessful baseball team.^[9]
• 4 October — English golfer Horace Rawlins, 21, wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament.^[4]
• 15 October — First motor show in Britain held at Tunbridge Wells.^[3]
• 1 November — The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey.
• 24 December — Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: In Ireland, the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.^[10]
• 29 December — The Jameson Raid: invasion of Transvaal.^[3]

Undated

• The name 'HP Sauce' is first registered.
• Lifebuoy soap first marketed by Lever Brothers.
• The Lee-Enfield rifle is adopted as standard issue by the British army, remaining in service until the 1960s.^[11]
• North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers, Scotland.
• All England Women’s Hockey Association founded, the first women’s national sporting governing body.^[6]

Ongoing

• Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1894–1896)

Publications

• Grant Allen's "New Woman" novel The Woman Who Did.
• Hilaire Belloc's poetry collection Verses and Sonnets.
• Joseph Conrad's novel Almayer's Folly.
• Kenneth Grahame's reminiscences The Golden Age (complete in book form).
• Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure (conclusion of serialisation and complete in book form).
• H. G. Wells' novella The Time Machine.

Births

• 29 April — Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)
• 30 May — Maurice Tate, cricketer (died 1956)
• 24 July — Robert Graves, writer (died 1985)
• 7 September — Brian Horrocks, general (died 1985)
• 31 October — Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (died 1970)
• 1 December — Henry Williamson, author (died 1977)
• 2 December — Harriet Cohen, pianist (died 1967)
• 14 December — Prince Albert, afterwards King George VI (died 1952)
• 30 December — L. P. Hartley, writer (died 1972)

Deaths

• 24 January — Lord Randolph Churchill, statesman (born 1849)
• 10 March — Charles Frederick Worth, fashion designer (born 1825)
• 15 May — Joseph Whitaker, publisher (born 1820)
• 29 June — Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (born 1825)

References

See also

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