1863 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1863 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 8 January - Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
- 10 January - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).[1]
- 7 February - HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.
- 10 March - Marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.[2]
- 15 August–17 August - Bombardment of Kagoshima: Royal Navy bombards the town of Kagoshima in Japan in retribution after the Namamugi Incident of 1862.
- 26 October - The Football Association founded.[1]
- 19 December - Linoleum patented.[1]
[edit] Undated
- The government rejects the Greek Assembly's choice of Prince Alfred as the successor to the deposed Otto of Greece.[1]
- Richard Owen publishes the first description of a fossilised bird, Archaeopteryx.[1]
- A scarlet fever epidemic causes over 30,000 deaths.[1]
- Beginning of Second Anglo-Ashanti war.
[edit] Publications
- Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water Babies.[3]
- Henry Walter Bates's work The Naturalist on the River Amazons.[1]
- Charles Lyell's work Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, endorsing the views of Charles Darwin.[1]
[edit] Births
- 17 January - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (died 1945)
- 11 March - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (died 1915)
- 27 March - Henry Royce, automobile pioneer (died 1933)
- 15 May - Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (died 1936)
- 29 May - Arthur Mold, cricketer (died 1921)
- 13 June - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, fashion designer (died 1942)
- 6 July - Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (died 1943)
- 21 July - C. Aubrey Smith, actor (died 1948)
- 13 September - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935)
- 16 October - Austen Chamberlain, statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1937)
[edit] Deaths
- 9 March - John Gully, sportsman and politician (born 1783)
- 24 August - Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, soldier (born 1792)
- 24 December - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (born 1811)
