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1861 in the United Kingdom
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1861 English cricket season
Events from the year
1861
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Undated
3
Publications
4
Births
5
Deaths
6
References
7
See also
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Incumbents
Monarch
-
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister
-
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
,
Liberal
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Events
20 February
- Storms damage
the Crystal Palace
in
London
and caused the collapse of the steeple of
Chichester Cathedral
.
[1]
21 March
to
26 March
- Major fire in
Southwark
destroys several buildings.
[2]
30 March
- Sir
William Crookes
announces his discovery of
Thallium
(see
Discovery of the chemical elements
).
13 May
- British government pledges to remain neutral in the
American Civil War
.
[2]
17 May
-
Thomas Cook
runs the first
package holiday
from
London
to
Paris
.
[1]
31 July
-
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
codifies company law.
[2]
27 August
- Last
execution
in Britain for
attempted murder
— Martin Doyle in
Chester
.
16 September
-
Post Office Savings Bank
opens.
[2]
24 October
- The
HMS Warrior
, the world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled armored battleship was completed and commissioned.
25 November
-
Tenement
collapses in the Old Town of
Edinburgh
and buries 50 — rescuers find 15 of them alive.
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Undated
The first colour photograph by
James Clerk Maxwell
.
James Clerk Maxwell
demonstrates the principle of three-colour photography (see picture).
[3]
The death penalty is limited to
murder
,
embezzlement
,
piracy
and to acts of
arson
perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots.
British Empire
establishes bases in
Lagos
to stop the slave trade.
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Publications
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
published.
George Eliot
's novel
Silas Marner
.
Anthony Trollope
's novel
Framley Parsonage
.
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Births
12 June
-
William Attewell
, cricketer (died
1927
)
19 June
-
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
, soldier (died
1928
)
20 June
-
Frederick Hopkins
, biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
(died
1947
)
23 September
-
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, poet and novelist (died
1907
)
16 October
-
J. B. Bury
, historian (died
1927
)
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Deaths
29 January
-
Catherine Gore
, novelist and dramatist (born
1799
)
16 March
-
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
, Duchess of Kent and mother of
Queen Victoria
(born
1786
, Germany)
29 June
-
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, poet (born
1806
)
14 December
-
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
, husband of Queen Victoria (born
1819
)
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References
^
a
b
(2006)
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library.
ISBN 0-141-02715-0
.
^
a
b
c
d
Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd, 282-283.
ISBN 0-7126-5616-2
.
^
(1999)
The Hutchinson Factfinder
. Helicon.
ISBN 1-85986-000-1
.
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