1860 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.
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- March - Food and Drugs Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.[1]
- 17 March - Taranaki War between Maoris and British colonists in New Zealand begins.[1]
- April - The last major bare-knuckle boxing match in England ends in a draw.[1]
- May - Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to be photographed. The photographer was John Jabez Edwin Mayall.[2]
- June - First golf championship, at Prestwich. Sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it was not truly open until the following year.[1]
- 22 August - the British navy assist the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
- 30 August - the first street trams in Britain are introduced in Birkenhead.[3]
- October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
- 5 October - Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.
- 17 October - the first professional golf tournament, The Open Championship, held in Prestwick in Scotland.[3]
- 18 October
- 1 December - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in the magazine All the Year Round.
- 29 December - The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the HMS Warrior is launched.[3]
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