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UK-related events during the year of 1860
Events from the year
1860 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 January –
Cray Wanderers Football Club formed in
St Mary Cray , north
Kent .
25 January –
HMS Prince of Wales , a 121-gun
screw-propelled
first-rate
ship of the line is launched at
Portsmouth Dockyard .
February –
Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom recommends erection of the
Palmerston Forts .
27 February –
paddle steamer
Nimrod is wrecked off
St David's Head in
Wales and 45 people are killed.
28 February – the
Artists Rifles is established, as the 38th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteer Corps, with headquarters at
Burlington House in London.
[1]
March – Food and Drink Act, 1860 prohibits the
adulteration of certain foodstuffs.
[2]
7 March –
HMS Howe , the
Royal Navy 's last, largest and fastest wooden
first-rate three-decker
ship of the line , is launched at
Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
17 March –
First Taranaki War between the
Māori and British colonists in New Zealand begins.
[2]
17 April – one of the last major
bare-knuckle boxing matches in England, and the first major international, between
Tom Sayers and American heavyweight
John C. Heenan at
Farnborough, Hampshire , ends in a draw as police arrive to break up the event.
[2]
22 April –
Eastbourne manslaughter .
28 May – One of the worst storms ever experienced in the region hits the east coast of England, sinking more than 100 ships and killing at least 40 people.
[3]
30 June – A historic
debate about evolution is held, at the
Oxford University Museum .
9 July – the
Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses , the first
nursing school based on the ideas of
Florence Nightingale , is opened at
St Thomas' Hospital in
London .
22 August – the British navy assists the troops of
Giuseppe Garibaldi to cross from
Sicily to the mainland of
Italy .
30 August – the first street trams in Britain are introduced in
Birkenhead .
[4]
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 is held at
Prestwick in
Scotland ,
[4]
[5] sometimes regarded as the first
Open , although it is not truly open until the following year.
[2]
18 October –
Second Opium War :
November – the 'Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs', predecessor of the
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home , is established in London by
Mary Tealby .
1 December
26 December – The first
Rules derby is held between
Sheffield F.C. and
Hallam F.C. , the oldest football fixture in the world.
29 December – the world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured
battleship ,
HMS Warrior is launched on the Thames.
[4]
unknown dates
Britain produces 20% of the entire world's output of industrial goods.
First recorded
fish and chip shops in the UK, Joseph Malin's in London
[8] and John Lees' in
Mossley near
Oldham , Lancashire.
[9]
Publications
Births
8 January –
Emma Booth-Tucker , Salvationist (died 1903 in the United States)
21 February –
Goscombe John , Welsh sculptor (died 1952)
25 February –
William Ashley , economic historian (died 1927)
6 March –
Frederick George Jackson , Arctic explorer (died 1938)
22 March –
John George Bartholomew , Scottish cartographer (died 1920)
9 April –
Emily Hobhouse , humanitarian, feminist and pacifist (died 1926)
2 May
7 May –
Tom Norman , showman (died 1930)
9 May –
J. M. Barrie , author (died 1937)
30 May –
Archibald Thorburn , wildlife painter (died 1935)
6 June –
William Inge , dean and theologian (died 1954)
13 June –
Lancelot Speed , illustrator (died 1931)
25 June –
Sutherland Macdonald , tattoo artist (died 1942)
20 July –
Margaret McMillan , American-born pioneer of nursery education (died 1931)
22 July –
Frederick Rolfe , writer and artist (died 1913)
31 July –
George Warrender , admiral (died 1917)
3 August –
W. K. Dickson , inventor (died 1935)
5 August –
Louis Wain , humorous artist (died 1939)
7 August –
Alan Leo , born William F. Allan, astrologer (died 1917)
11 September –
Ben Tillett , trade union leader (died 1943)
22 November –
Etta Lemon , born Smith, bird conservationist (died 1953)
8 December –
Amanda McKittrick Ros , born Anna McKittrick, Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died 1939)
20 December –
Dan Leno , music hall comedian (died 1904)
Deaths
1 January –
Thomas Hobbes Scott , clergyman (born 1783)
27 January –
Sir Thomas Brisbane , astronomer (born 1773)
9 February –
William Evans Burton , dramatist, theatre manager and publisher (born 1804)
17 March –
Anna Brownell Jameson , cultural historian (born 1794)
25 March –
James Braid , surgeon (born 1795)
[11]
4 May –
William Ormsby-Gore , politician (born 1779)
12 May – Sir
Charles Barry , architect (born 1795)
16 May –
Anne Isabella Milbanke , wife of
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (born 1792)
[12]
11 June –
Baden Powell , mathematician and Church of England priest (born 1796)
29 June –
Thomas Addison , physician (born 1793)
17 July –
Betsi Cadwaladr , Crimea nurse (born 1789)
2 August –
Sir Henry Ward , diplomat, politician and colonial administrator (born 1797)
3 August –
Sir Henry Wyndham ,
British Army
General and
Conservative Party politician (born 1790)
12 October –
Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet , military commander (born 1787)
31 October –
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , admiral (born 1775)
11 December –
Anne Knight , children's writer and educationist (born
1792 )
14 December –
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)
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^
"Artists Rifles Association" . 2006–2008. Retrieved 14 August 2013 .
^
a
b
c
d Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 281–282.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Among those rescued at sea is the crew of the
brig Hannah , captained by George Jezzard, the great-great-great-grandfather of actor
David Suchet .
^
a
b
c Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
"The Open Championship – More Scottish than British" .
PGA Tour official website. Archived from
the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2008 .
^ Jukes, Tony.
"The development of Risca" . Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS . Archived from
the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2010 .
^
"Risca Colliery" . CoalHouse .
BBC . 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2010 .
^
Rayner, Jay (19 January 2003).
"Enduring Love" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
^ Hyslop, Leah (30 October 2013).
"Potted histories: fish and chips" .
The Daily Telegraph . London. Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
^ Moseley, Brian (May 2011).
"Western Morning News" . The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History . Plymouth Data. Archived from
the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^ Daintith, John (1 January 1994).
Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition - 2 Volume Set . CRC Press. p. 114.
ISBN
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"The True Story of Lady Byron's Life" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 4 December 2020 .