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UK-related events during the year of 1883
Events from the year
1883 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 January –
Augustus Pitt Rivers takes office as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments.
[1]
5 March –
Gloucester City A.F.C. is formed.
15 March –
Fenian dynamite campaign : An explosion at the Local Government Board,
Charles Street, Mayfair (
Westminster ) causes over £4,000 worth of damage and some minor injuries to people nearby. A second bomb at
The Times newspaper offices in
Queen Victoria Street, London does not explode.
[2]
29 March –
Edward Benson enthroned as
Archbishop of Canterbury .
31 March –
Blackburn Olympic beat
Old Etonians F.C. 2–1 in the
FA Cup Final at
The Oval , the Etonians being the last
amateur team to reach the final
[3] and Olympic being the first northern working-class team to do so.
7 May –
Royal College of Music opens in London with
George Grove as first Director.
[4]
11 May –
William Morris registers his
Strawberry Thief printed textile design.
16 June –
Victoria Hall disaster : A rush for treats results in 183 children being
asphyxiated in a concert hall in
Sunderland .
[5]
3 July –
SS Daphne sinks on launch in Glasgow, leaving 124 dead.
[6]
1 August –
GPO introduces the
Parcels Post service.
[7]
4 August – first electric
railway opens, the
Volk's Railway at
Brighton .
[4]
13 August –
Coventry City F.C. are formed as "
Singers F.C."
25 August –
Trial of Lunatics Act permits a criminal on trial to be found guilty but insane.
29 August –
Dunfermline Carnegie Library , the first
Carnegie library is opened in
Andrew Carnegie 's hometown,
Dunfermline .
11 September – Major
Evelyn Baring becomes
Consul-General of
Egypt under British rule .
September –
Bristol Rovers F.C. is founded as "Black Arabs F.C."
October
October–November –
Primrose League established in support of the
Conservative Party .
4 October – the
Boys' Brigade is founded in Glasgow. It is the first uniformed youth organisation in existence.
[8]
24 October –
Cardiff University opens under the name of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire.
[9]
30 October – two
Clan na Gael
dynamite bombs explode in the
London Underground , injuring several people. Next day
Home Secretary
William Vernon Harcourt drafts 300 policemen to guard the Underground and introduces the
Explosives Bill .
3 November–5 November –
Mahdist War : Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated at the
Battle of El Obeid in
Sudan .
[10]
Undated
Publications
Sport
Births
1 January –
Mary Forbes , actress (died 1974)
3 January –
Clement Attlee ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1967)
16 January –
Oswald Short ,
aviation pioneer and aircraft builder, youngest of the Short Brothers (died 1969)
17 January –
Compton Mackenzie , novelist and Scottish nationalist (died 1972)
20 January –
Bertram Ramsay , admiral (died 1945)
15 February –
Sax Rohmer , author (died 1959)
16 February –
Elizabeth Craig , cookery writer (died 1980)
25 February –
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone , member of the royal family (died 1981)
19 March –
Walter Haworth , chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)
28 March –
William Henry Harris , organist, choral trainer and composer (died 1973)
19 May –
George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley , Lord Great Chamberlain (died 1968)
5 June –
John Maynard Keynes , economist (died 1946)
1 July –
Arthur Borton , soldier,
Victoria Cross recipient (died 1933)
23 July –
Stuart Paton , screenwriter and film director (died 1944)
29 July –
Fred Pentland , footballer and coach (died 1962)
23 August –
Jesse Pennington , footballer (died 1970)
8 November –
Arnold Bax , composer (died 1953)
25 November –
Percy Marmont , actor (died 1977)
Deaths
9 March –
Arnold Toynbee , economic historian (born 1852)
14 March –
Karl Marx , political philosopher and economist (born 1818 in Germany)
14 April –
William Farr , epidemiologist (born 1807)
18 April –
Elizabeth Ferard , Anglican deaconess (born 1825)
28 April –
Jack Russell , dog breeder (born 1795)
13 May –
James Young , Scottish chemist (born 1811)
20 May –
William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician (born 1800)
11 June –
Caroline Leigh Gascoigne , poet and novelist (born 1813)
14 June –
Edward FitzGerald , poet (born 1809)
23 June –
Sir William Knollys , general (born 1797)
23 July –
Rose Massey , actress (died of consumption in the United States) (born c. 1845)
24 July –
Matthew Webb , first recorded person to swim the English Channel unaided (died in swim at Niagara Falls) (born 1848)
26 July –
Sir William Fenwick Williams , general (born 1800)
6 October –
William Beresford , politician (born 1797)
14 October –
Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet , writer and Liberal politician (born 1818)
20 October –
George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall , Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician (born 1797)
19 November –
Sir Charles William Siemens , electrical engineer (born 1823 in Germany)
26 December –
Thomas Holloway , pharmacist and philanthropist (born 1800)
Margaret Agnes Bunn , actress (born 1799)
References
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ISBN
0-239-00162-1 .
^ "Terrific Explosion in London". The Cornishman . No. 245. 22 March 1883. p. 7.
^ Slee, Christopher (1994). The Guinness Book of Lasts . Enfield: Guinness Publishing.
ISBN
0-85112-783-5 .
^
a
b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 307–308.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"The Victoria Hall Disaster of 1883" . BBC. 17 December 2002. Retrieved 26 May 2007 .
^
"SS Daphne" . Clydebuilt Database . Archived from
the original on 7 July 2006. Retrieved 23 June 2014 .
^
a
b Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 . Caterham: Marden. p. 17.
^
"History" . The Boys' Brigade. Archived from
the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2010 .
^
"Milestones" . About Cardiff University . Cardiff University. Archived from
the original on 19 September 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2010 .
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
436–437 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^
"Our History" . Alsager: Twyford. Retrieved 18 September 2023 .
^ Godwin, Terry (1984). The International Rugby Championship 1883-1983 . London: Willow Books.
ISBN
0-00-218060-X .