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UK-related events during the year of 1867
Events from the year 1867 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
By February – The
Society of Arts inaugurates the
Blue plaque scheme, advanced by
William Ewart , for erecting memorial tablets on London houses previously the homes of notable people, the first being at
Lord Byron 's birthplace, 24 Holles Street, off
Cavendish Square .
[1]
11 February – abortive
Fenian attempt to seize
Chester Castle .
[2]
5 March –
Fenian Rising in
Ireland .
[3]
15 March – 'Conference of Trades' first meets; later forming the nucleus of the
Trades Union Congress .
[3]
16 March – first publication of an article by
Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of
antiseptic
surgery , in
The Lancet .
29 March –
Canadian Confederation : the
British North America Act receives
Royal Assent , forming the Dominion of
Canada . This unites the
Province of Canada (
Quebec and
Ontario ),
New Brunswick , and
Nova Scotia as of 1 July.
[4]
Ottawa becomes the capital, and
John A. Macdonald becomes the Dominion's first
Prime Minister .
1 April – Strait Settlement of
Singapore , formerly ruled from
Calcutta , becomes a
Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the
Colonial Office in
London .
11 May
18 May –
John Stuart Mill 's motion to give women the vote is decisively rejected by the all-male
House of Commons .
[3]
20 May – Laying of the foundation stone of the
Royal Albert Hall by Queen Victoria.
[5]
22 May –
Henry Chaplin 's
Hermit wins the
Epsom Derby in a snowstorm at 1000:15 odds, ruining Chaplin's rival in love,
Harry, Marquess of Hastings , who has bet heavily against him.
[6]
3 June – The sport of
lacrosse is introduced from
Canada .
[5]
1 July –
Canadian Confederation :
British North America Act of 29 March comes into force, creating the Dominion of
Canada , the first independent dominion in the
British Empire .
14 July – Swedish chemist
Alfred Nobel demonstrates
dynamite in a quarry in
Redhill, Surrey ,
[5] having
patented it in the UK on 7 May.
[7]
[8]
15 August –
Benjamin Disraeli 's
Second Reform Act enfranchises many urban working men and adds 938,000 men to an electorate of 1,057,000 in
England and Wales .
[3]
4 September –
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. are founded at the
Adelphi Hotel in
Sheffield .
24–28 September – First of the
Lambeth Conferences held.
October –
Thomas Barnardo opens his first shelter for homeless children, in
Stepney .
[3]
12 October – End of
penal transportation , as the last
convict ship , the
Hougoumont , departs from
Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to
Western Australia .
[3] 62
Fenians are among the transportees.
6 November –
National Society for Women's Suffrage , the first such national campaign group, is formed by
Lydia Becker .
8 November – An underground
explosion at
Ferndale Colliery in the
Rhondda kills 178.
[9]
23 November – The three '
Manchester Martyrs ' are hanged in
Salford for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two
Irish Republican Brotherhood members from imprisonment on 18 September.
28 November – Opening of Baylis' Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House,
Glasgow , which becomes the
Theatre Royal, Glasgow in May 1869.
[10]
13 December –
Clerkenwell explosion at
Clerkenwell Prison during a
Fenian escape attempt; 12 local residents are killed.
[3]
Undated
Publications
Births
8 January –
Thomas Coward , ornithologist (died 1933)
28 January –
Agnata Butler , née Ramsay, classical scholar (died 1931)
4 February –
Alexander Godley , general (died 1957)
27 February –
Nina Boucicault , actress (died 1950)
15 March –
Lionel Johnson , poet (died 1902)
10 April –
George William Russell (Æ), Irish-born nationalist, poet and artist (died 1935)
13 April –
Sammy Woods , cricketer (died 1931)
3 May
26 May –
Mary of Teck , consort of
George V (died 1953)
27 May –
Arnold Bennett , novelist (died 1931)
2 June –
William Goodenough , admiral (died 1945)
17 June –
Flora Finch , silent film comedian (died 1940 in the United States)
2 July –
Herbert Prior , actor (died 1954)
24 July –
E. F. Benson , author (died 1940)
2 August –
Ernest Dowson , Decadent poet and fiction writer (died 1900)
3 August –
Stanley Baldwin , Prime Minister (died 1947)
6 August –
Sam Mussabini , athletics coach (died 1927)
9 August –
Evelina Haverfield , suffragette (died 1920)
14 August –
John Galsworthy , novelist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
19 September –
Arthur Rackham , illustrator (died 1939)
21 September –
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe , politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1958)
25 September –
Katharine Glasier , née Conway, writer and socialist (died 1950)
7 November –
George Paish , economist (died 1957)
24 November –
Detmar Blow , Arts and Crafts architect (died 1939)
2 December –
Alec B. Francis , actor (died 1934)
Undated –
Laura Anning Bell , née Richard, artist (died 1950)
Deaths
16 January –
William Marsden , surgeon (born 1796)
5 February –
Henry Crabb Robinson , man of letters, lawyer and diarist (born 1775)
18 April –
Sir Robert Smirke , Greek Revival architect (born 1780)
27 April –
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover , Welsh-born industrialist and politician (born 1802)
22 May –
Edward Hodges Baily , sculptor (born 1788)
19 July –
Maria Abdy , poet (born 1797)
4 August –
William Crawshay II , industrialist (born 1788)
25 August –
Michael Faraday , chemist and physicist (born 1791)
21 November –
John Ogilvie , Scottish lexicographer (born 1797)
1 December
27 December –
Maria Foote , actress (born 1797)
30 December –
Sarah Booth , actress (born 1793)
Undated –
James Pollard , painter and aquatint engraver of equine subjects (born 1792)
References
^
"RSA Timeline" . Archived from
the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011 . ;
"About blue plaques" . Virtual Museum . The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved 23 March 2011 . Following the house's demolition some twenty years later, the original plaque is no longer extant and the earliest to survive is that erected by September to
Napoleon III .
^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History . Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
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h Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 288–287.
ISBN
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^
"Constitution Act, 1867" .
Department of Justice (Canada) . 9 July 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012 .
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c Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Martiniak, Elizabeth.
"Hermit" . Thoroughbred Heritage Portraits .
Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2010 .
^
"Alfred Nobel" ,
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^ Schück, H.; Sohlman, R. (1929). The Life of Alfred Nobel . London: Heinemann. p. 101.
^ Davies, John;
Jenkins, Nigel ; Baines, Menna; Lynch, Peredur (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . p. 280.
ISBN
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"Theatre Royal" . arthurlloyd.co.uk . Retrieved 27 August 2010 .
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Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.