1874 in the United Kingdom

1874 in the United Kingdom:
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1874 English cricket season Football: England

Events from the year 1874 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) (until 17 February), Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) (starting 17 February)

Events

19 January — Manchester High School for Girls, the first girls' school to provide an academic education in northern England, is founded.
23 January — Marriage of The Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Tsarevich Alexander III of Russia.
31 January — British defeat the Ashanti at the Battle of Amoafo.^[1]
20 February to 10 August — Agricultural workers' strike.^[1]
23 February — Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis.^[2]
28 February — At the conclusion of one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the defendant in the Tichborne case is convicted of perjury.
5 March — Conservative Party under Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield win the general election, the first to be held by secret ballot, despite polling fewer votes than the Liberal Party under William Ewart Gladstone. Among those elected are Alexander Macdonald (Lib–Lab) and Thomas Burt (Radical labour), both former coal miners and among the first working class Members of Parliament.
14 March — Peace treaty with the Ashanti gives freedom of movement for British Gold Coast traders, and a promise to end human sacrifice.^[1]
March — Aston Villa F.C. is founded by members of Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel cricket team in Handsworth, Birmingham.
1 April — Dr Frances Morgan marries Dr George Hoggan and they set up the first husband-and-wife general medical practice in the UK.^[3]
14 April — Astley Deep Pit Disaster: a mining accident as the result of an explosion in Dukinfield, Cheshire, kills 54.^[4]
13 May — Tsar Alexander II of Russia makes a state visit to Britain.^[5]
July
- Treaty of Fomena concludes the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
- Following trials in London, the GPO agrees that red will replace the current bronze green colour on all pillar and post boxes.^[6]
7 August — Public Worship Regulation Act prohibits ritualistic practices in the Church of England.^[1]
30 August — Factory Act establishes 56-hour working week and prevents children from being used as chimney sweeps.^[1]
Autumn — London School of Medicine for Women founded.^[7]

Undated

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's oil painting Proserpine, modelled on Jane Morris.
Hertford College, Oxford, re-founded by merger of Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.^[8]
Frank Cooper's Oxford marmalade first produced by his wife Sarah.^[9]
Other Association football teams founded this year include Bolton Wanderers (as Christ Church F.C.) and Heart of Midlothian F.C. (in Edinburgh).

Publications

J. R. Green's social history A Short History of the English People.
Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd.

Births

20 January — Steve Bloomer, footballer, cricketer and baseball player (died 1938)
25 January — W. Somerset Maugham, author (died 1965)
11 February — Fritz Hart, composer (died 1949)
15 February — Ernest Shackleton, explorer (died 1922)
9 May
- Lilian Baylis, theatrical producer (died 1937)
- Howard Carter, archaeologist (died 1939)
19 May — Gilbert Jessop, cricketer (died 1955)
29 May — G. K. Chesterton, author (died 1936)
21 September — Gustav Holst, composer (died 1934)
15 October — Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (died 1899)
26 October — Martin Lowry, chemist (died 1936)
30 November — Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1965)

Deaths

24 April — John Phillips, geologist (born 1800)
3 September — John Rennie the Younger, civil engineer (born 1794)
12 September — Francis E. Anstie, English doctor and journalist (born 1833)
21 November — William Jardine, naturalist (born 1800)

References

1 2 3 4 5 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 296–297. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth (1843–1927)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46422. Retrieved 2012-06-22. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Burke, Edmund (ed.) (1875). The Annual Register for 1874. London: Rivingtons. pp. (Chronicle section)38–40.
↑ "Tsar Alexander swept in to visit Victoria with entourage of 70". Daily Telegraph. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
↑ Farrugia, Jean Young (1969). The Letter Box: a history of Post Office pillar and wall boxes. Fontwell: Centaur Press. ISBN 0-900000-14-7.
↑ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). The Encyclopædia of Oxford. London: Macmillan. p. 182. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
↑ "The High, Oxford: No 84". www.oxfordhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-09.

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