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UK-related events during the year of 1886
Events from the year 1886 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January –
Ulster
Protestant
Unionists begin to lobby against the
Irish Home Rule Bill , establishing the Ulster Loyal Anti-Repeal Union in
Belfast .
13 January – after six years of campaigning, the
atheist
Charles Bradlaugh is permitted to
affirm rather than take the traditional oath, allowing him to take his seat as a
Member of Parliament .
[1]
18 January – the Hockey Association is founded,
[2] largely on the initiative of sports clubs in the London area, and codifies the rules for
hockey .
[3]
[4]
27 January –
Salisbury loses supports of the
Irish Party , and resigns as Prime Minister.
[2]
1 February
8 February ("Black Monday") – "Pall Mall riots": climax of two days of rioting in the
West End of London by the unemployed, coinciding with the coldest winter in thirty years.
March
10 March – first
Crufts dog show held in
London .
[6]
April –
New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition.
8 April –
Gladstone introduces the
Government of Ireland Bill (the first Irish Home Rule Bill) in the
House of Commons .
[7] During the debates on the Bill
11 May – the
International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry in Liverpool is opened by Queen Victoria.
8 June – the Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass in Parliament on a vote of 343–313. Ulster Protestants celebrate its defeat, leading to renewed rioting on the streets of Belfast and the deaths of seven people, with many more injured.
[8]
12 June – Gladstone calls for a dissolution of Parliament.
25 June
30 June –
Royal Holloway College for women, established by
Thomas Holloway (died 1883), opened by
Queen Victoria at
Egham in
Surrey .
12 July–mid-September –
Belfast riots : Beginning with the
Orange Institution parades and continuing sporadically throughout the summer, clashes take place between Catholics and Protestants, and also between Loyalists and police. Thirteen people are killed in a weekend of serious rioting, with an official death toll of 31 people over the period.
[8]
23 July – the inaugural
Eclipse Stakes , run at
Sandown Park in Surrey with a prize fund of £10,000 donated by
Leopold de Rothschild , making it at this time the richest British horse race, is won by the stallion
Bendigo .
[10]
27 July –
general election won by the
Conservative Party under
Salisbury but with a Parliamentary majority depending on the support of the new
Liberal Unionist Party .
1 September – the
Severn Tunnel is opened by the
Great Western Railway .
[2]
October –
Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women founded by Dr
Sophia Jex-Blake .
11 October – memorial statue to
Sister Dora unveiled in
Walsall .
[11]
9 December
22 December –
Lord Randolph Churchill ,
Chancellor of the Exchequer since 3 August, resigns his office in protest against refusal of the Cabinet to accept cuts which he proposes in military budgets. He does not expect the Prime Minister to accept his resignation, but Salisbury does, and Churchill never holds ministerial office again.
[13]
25 December – great snow storm in London.
[14]
Undated
Publications
Births
1 January –
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth , working class novelist and campaigner (died 1962)
5 March
Paul Radmilovic , Welsh-born competitive swimmer, 4-times Olympic gold medal winner (died 1968)
Freddie Welsh , né Thomas, Welsh-born World lightweight boxing champion (died 1927 in the United States)
10 May –
Olaf Stapledon , author and philosopher (died 1950)
20 May –
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever , businessman (died 1971)
18 June –
George Mallory , climber (died 1924)
21 June –
William Ibbett , submariner and radio broadcaster (died 1975)
24 June –
George Shiels , dramatist (died 1949)
19 July –
Edward Sloman , silent film director, actor, screenwriter and radio broadcaster (died 1972)
26 August –
Ronald Niel Stuart , Royal Navy captain (died 1954)
27 August
4 September –
Albert Orsborn , 6th General of
The Salvation Army (died 1967)
13 September –
Robert Robinson , organic chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
18 September –
C. H. Middleton , gardening broadcaster (died 1945)
20 September –
Charles Williams , poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic (died 1945)
26 September –
Archibald Vivian Hill , physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)
25 October –
Leo G. Carroll , actor (died 1972)
12 November –
Ben Travers , farceur (died 1980)
5 December –
Constance Spry , florist (died 1960)
Deaths
7 January –
Richard Dadd , painter (born 1817)
12 February –
Randolph Caldecott , artist (born 1846)
15 February –
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell , politician (born 1813)
27 March –
Sir Henry Taylor , dramatist, poet and civil servant (born 1800)
5 April –
William Edward Forster , Liberal politician (born 1818)
16 April –
Andrew Nicholl , painter (born 1804)
17 May –
Erskine May , constitutional theorist (born 1815)
19 June –
Sir Charles Trevelyan , civil servant and colonial administrator (born 1807)
21 June –
Daniel Dunglas Home , Scottish medium (born 1833)
17 July –
David Stevenson , Scottish lighthouse designer (born 1815)
9 August –
Samuel Ferguson , poet and artist (born 1810)
26 August –
Robert Eden , bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1804)
10 September –
John Liptrot Hatton , composer, conductor, pianist and singer (born 1809)
18 September –
Sampson Gamgee , surgeon (born 1828)
1 October –
William Hepworth Thompson , classical scholar (born 1810)
27 October –
Robert Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell , lawyer and politician (born 1817)
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