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UK-related events during the year of 1869
Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
7 January –
Amateur Swimming Association formed in London.
[1]
30 January – the new magazine
Vanity Fair publishes the first of a long series of colour
lithographic
caricatures of public figures, initially by
Carlo Pellegrini , portraying
Benjamin Disraeli .
February –
Charity Organization Society established in London as the Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity.
February–April – the Conservative local authority in
Liverpool opens the first
council housing in Europe, St Martin's Cottages (
tenement flats).
[2]
6 March – the first international cycle race is held at
Crystal Palace, London .
[3]
31 March – the
Conservative Party holds both seats in the
Blackburn by-election .
[4]
21 April – at least fifteen people are killed by collapse of machinery at
Delabole Quarry in Cornwall.
[5]
15 May –
General Examination for Women of the
University of London first held, sat by the "London Nine".
22 May –
Sainsbury's first store opened, in
Drury Lane ,
London .
[6]
2 June – seven men are tried at
Mold for attacking a colliery manager following a pay cut. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.
[7]
10 June – an underground
explosion at
Ferndale Colliery in the
Rhondda kills 53.
[8]
24 June –
Sea Birds Preservation Act passed, preventing killing of designated species during the breeding season, the first Act to offer any protection to wild birds in the UK.
[9]
26 July –
Irish Church Act
disestablishes the
Church of Ireland with effect from 1871.
[10]
2 August –
Municipal Corporation (Election) Act (
Municipal Franchise Act ) restores to unmarried women
ratepayers the franchise to vote in local elections and enables them to become
Poor Law Guardians , through an amendment moved by
John Bright .
9 August
27 August –
Oxford University Boat Club wins the first international boat race held on the
River Thames against
Harvard University .
[3]
October – the '
Edinburgh Seven ', led by
Sophia Jex-Blake , start to attend lectures at the
University of Edinburgh Medical School , the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).
[11]
11 October –
Red River Rebellion against British forces in
Canada .
[10]
16 October – England's first residential university-level
women's college , the College for Women, predecessor of
Girton College, Cambridge , is founded at
Hitchin by
Emily Davies and
Barbara Bodichon .
4 November – the first issue of scientific journal
Nature is published in London, edited by
Norman Lockyer .
19 November – the
Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to
Rupert's Land in Canada under its letters patent back to the
British Crown .
[10]
22 November –
clipper ship
Cutty Sark is launched in
Dumbarton ,
Scotland ; she is one of the last clippers built, and the only one to survive in the UK.
[3]
31 December – last day on which the
half farthing coin is
legal tender in the U.K.
undated – first
Home Children
child migration to Canada.
Publications
Births
14 January –
Dennis Eadie , Scottish-born character actor (died 1928)
26 January –
George Douglas Brown , novelist (died 1902)
14 February –
C. T. R. Wilson , Scottish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
3 March –
Henry Wood , conductor (died 1944)
14 March –
Algernon Blackwood , writer (died 1951)
18 March –
Neville Chamberlain ,
Prime Minister (died 1940)
27 March –
J. R. Clynes , politician (died 1949)
29 March –
Edwin Lutyens , architect (died 1944)
9 May –
Tyrone Power Sr. , actor (died 1931 in the United States)
18 May –
Lucy Beaumont , actress (died 1937)
7 June –
Lamorna Birch , born Samuel John Birch, painter (died 1955)
11 June –
Walford Bodie , stage magician (died 1939)
17 June –
Flora Finch , comic performer, silent film star (died 1940 in the United States)
19 June –
Christopher Addison , anatomist and politician (died 1951)
12 July –
Conrad Noel , Anglican vicar and socialist (died 1942)
13 July –
Florence Perry , opera singer (died 1949)
10 August –
Lawrence Binyon , poet and scholar (died 1943)
16 August –
Vincent Lambert , Suspected Vampire (Unknown date of death)
6 September –
Walford Davies , composer (died 1941)
24 September –
Maud Cunnington , archaeologist (died 1951)
3 October –
Robert W. Paul , pioneer of cinematography (died 1943)
15 November –
Charlotte Mew , poet (suicide 1928)
20 November –
Herbert Tudor Buckland , seminal
Arts and crafts architect (died 1951)
26 November – Princess
Maud of Wales , queen consort of Norway (died 1938)
30 December –
Stephen Leacock , humorist and economist (died 1944 in Canada)
Deaths
30 January
7 February –
Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey , peer, Whig politician, courtier and cricketer (born 1797)
11 March –
F. G. Loring , writer and naval officer (died 1951)
20 March –
John Pascoe Grenfell , admiral in the Brazilian Navy (born 1800)
30 April – Sir
Arthur William Buller , politician (born 1808)
18 May –
Peter Cunningham , literary scholar and antiquarian (born 1816)
25 May –
Sir Charles Fremantle , Royal Navy officer (born 1800)
10 June –
Frederick Yeates Hurlstone , painter (born 1800)
11 July –
William Jerdan , journalist (born 1782)
2 August –
Thomas Medwin , poet, biographer and translator (born 1788)
5 August –
Emily Eden , poet and novelist (born 1797)
8 August –
Roger Fenton , photographer (born 1819)
11 September –
Thomas Graham , chemist (born 1805)
12 September –
Peter Mark Roget , lexicographer (born 1779)
18 September –
Henry Phillpotts , Bishop of Exeter (born 1778)
20 September –
George Patton, Lord Glenalmond , judge and politician, suicide (born 1803)
23 October –
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ,
Prime Minister (born 1799)
9 November –
Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor , landowner and philanthropist in Wales (born 1797)
References
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"The significance of 7 January for swimming" .
Swim England . 7 January 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019 .
^
"Municipal Housing in Liverpool before 1914: the 'first council houses in Europe' " . Municipal Dreams . 8 October 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2017 .
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a
b
c Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
"No. 23484" .
The London Gazette . 2 April 1869. p. 2051.
^ Porter, Sylvia J. (1997). Catastrophe at Delabole . Delabole: author.
^ Baren, Maurice (1996). How it All Began Up the High Street . London: Michael O'Mara Books.
ISBN
1-85479-667-4 .
^ "The Riot In Wales".
The Times . No. 26455. London. 4 June 1869. p. 12.
^ Davies, John;
Jenkins, Nigel ; Baines, Menna; Lynch, Peredur (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . p. 280.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6 .
^ Barclay-Smith, Phyllis (1959).
"The British contribution to bird protection" .
Ibis . 101 (1): 115–122.
doi :
10.1111/j.1474-919X.1959.tb02363.x . Archived from
the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2021 .
^
a
b
c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 290–291.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Elston, M. A. (2004).
"Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 January 2011 . (subscription or
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