1881 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1881 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 1 January - Postal orders issued for the first time in Britain.[1]
- 18 January - First Boer War: British forces defeated at the Battle of Laing's Nek.[2]
- 8 February - First Boer War: British forces defeated at the Battle of Schuinshoogte.
- 27 February - First Boer War: British forces defeated at the Battle of Majuba Hill.[2]
- 1 March - The Cunard Line's SS Servia, the first steel ocean liner, is launched.[2]
- 5 April - The Treaty of Pretoria gave the Boers self-government in the Transvaal under a theoretical British oversight.[2]
- 18 April - The Natural History Museum is opened.[3]
- 19 April - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury becomes the Conservative Leader in the House of Lords following the death of Benjamin Disraeli.[2]
- 23 April - First performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience at the Opera Comique in London.[2]
- 27 April - British troops leave Afghanistan.[1]
- 26 July - First publication of the London Evening News.[2]
- 16 August - a tribunal is set up under the Second Irish Land Act to examine excessive rents.[2]
- 10 October - The Savoy Theatre opens and is the first electrically lit building in London.[2]
- 13 October - Charles Stewart Parnell imprisoned for to his part in land agitation in Ireland.[2]
- 16 October - The People newspaper founded.[4]
[edit] Publications
- Henry James' novel The Portrait of a Lady.
[edit] Births
- 9 January - Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and critic (died 1938)
- 9 March - Ernest Bevin, labour leader, politician, and statesman (died 1951)
- 25 March - Mary Webb, writer (died 1927)
- 1 August - Rose Macaulay, novelist (died 1958)
- 6 August - Alexander Fleming, researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1955)
- 20 August - Edgar Guest, poet (died 1959)
- 16 September - Clive Bell, art critic (died 1964)
- 17 September - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, soldier (died 1955)
- 15 October
- William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1944)
- P. G. Wodehouse, writer (died 1975)
[edit] Deaths
- 5 February - Thomas Carlyle, writer and historian (born 1795)
- 19 April - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1804)
- 24 May - Samuel Palmer, artist (born 1805)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 305-306. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 434–435. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
