1864 in the United Kingdom

1864 in the United Kingdom:
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1864 English cricket season

Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — The Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)

Events

11 January — Charing Cross railway station in London opens.^[1]
11 March — Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.
29 March — Treaty of London: Britain voluntarily cedes control of the United States of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece with effect from 2 May.^[2]
7 May — City of Adelaide is launched at Sunderland by William Pile, Hay and Co. for the Australia trade; by 2014 she will be the world's oldest surviving clipper.
June — Overarm bowling legalised in cricket.
20 August — John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the chemical elements.^[3]
5–6 September — Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyo Lord Mori Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki, Japan.
28 September — International Workingmen's Association founded in London.^[1]
10 October — Quebec Conference to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada, begins.^[2]
18 October — Abolition of squadronal colours in the Royal Navy, reserving the White Ensign to the Navy, the Red Ensign to the Merchant Navy and the Blue Ensign to military vessels.^[4]
2 November — HMS Victoria (1859), the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line to see sea service, enters active service.
8 December
- The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Bristol Avon, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and completed as a memorial to him, opens to traffic.^[1]
- James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, concluding that light is an electromagnetic wave.^[5]

Undated

Ending of Second Anglo-Ashanti war.
Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, the world's first metal-framed glass curtain walled building, designed by Peter Ellis (architect), is built.^[6]

Publications

Harry Clifton's song "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green".
Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (serialisation begins).
Amelia Edwards' novel Barbara's History.
John Henry Newman's spiritual autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
James Payn's novel Lost Sir Massingberd (in Chambers's Journal).^[7]
Anthony Trollope's novel The Small House at Allington (publication concludes) and Can You Forgive Her? (publication commences).
John Wisden publishes The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 (February) which will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication.

Births

8 January — Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (died 1892)
14 February — Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright (died 1926)
20 February — Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (died 1925)
12 March — W. H. R. Rivers, psychiatrist (died 1922)
22 April — Phil May, caricaturist (died 1903)
14 September — Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1958)
31 October — Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945)
26 November — Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (died 1947)

Deaths

29 January — Lucy Aikin, writer (born 1781)
17 June — William Cureton, Orientalist (born 1808)
15 September — John Hanning Speke, explorer (born 1827)
8 December — George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
23 December — James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (born 1804)

References

1 2 3 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 284–285. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Newlands, John A. R. (20 August 1864). "On Relations Among the Equivalents". Chemical News 10: 94–95. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
↑ By Order in Council 9 July. "The Birth of Todays Royal Navy's Ensign". Historical Flags of Our Ancestors. NAVA. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
↑ Maxwell, J. Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 155: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
↑ "History". Oriel Chambers. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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1864 in Europe

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