1864 in the United Kingdom

UK-related events during the year of 1864

1864 in the United Kingdom

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1862 | 1863 | 1864 (1864) | 1865 | 1866
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1864 English cricket season

Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom.

## Incumbents[edit]

* Monarch – Victoria
* Prime Minister – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)

## Events[edit]

* 11 January – Charing Cross railway station in London opens.[1]
* 11 March – Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.
* 29 March – Treaty of London: Britain voluntarily cedes control of the United States of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece with effect from 2 May.[2]
* 1 April – Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Company registered to take over and expand the works at Barrow-in-Furness,[3] which will become the world's largest steel mill.
* April – Giuseppe Garibaldi visits England.
* 7 May – City of Adelaide is launched at Sunderland by William Pile, Hay and Co. for the Australia trade; by 2014 she will be the world's oldest surviving clipper.
* c. May–June – Ending of Second Anglo-Ashanti war.
* June – overarm bowling legalised in cricket.
* 20 August – John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the chemical elements.[4]
* 5–6 September – Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyō Lord Mōri Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki, Japan.
* 28 September – International Workingmen's Association founded in London.[1]
* 10 October – Quebec Conference to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada, begins.[2]
* 18 October – abolition of squadron colours in the Royal Navy, reserving the White Ensign to the Navy, the Red Ensign to the Merchant Navy and the Blue Ensign to military vessels.[5]
* 22 October – the predecessor of Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest association football club in Wales and the world's sixth oldest football club and third oldest professional team.[6]
* 2 November – HMS Victoria (1859), the Royal Navy's last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line to see sea service, enters active service.
* 10 November – first match played on the newly laid out Royal North Devon Golf Club course, the oldest surviving in England.[7]
* 8 December
* The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Bristol Avon, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and completed as a memorial to him, opens to traffic.[1]
* James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, concluding that light is an electromagnetic wave.[8]
* Undated
* Joseph Hepworth sets up his tailoring business in Leeds, predecessor of Next plc.[9]
* Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, the world's first metal-framed glass curtain walled building, designed by Peter Ellis (architect), is built.[10]

## Publications[edit]

* Harry Clifton's song "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green".
* Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (serialisation begins).
* Amelia Edwards' novel Barbara's History.
* John Henry Newman's spiritual autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
* James Payn's novel Lost Sir Massingberd (in Chambers's Journal).[11]
* Anthony Trollope's novel The Small House at Allington (publication concludes) and Can You Forgive Her? (publication commences).
* John Wisden publishes The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 (February) which will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication.

## Births[edit]

* 8 January – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (died 1892)
* 21 January – Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright (died 1926)
* 20 February – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (died 1925)
* 12 March – W. H. R. Rivers, psychiatrist (died 1922)
* 6 April – William Bate Hardy, biologist and food scientist (died 1934)
* 9 April – Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1930 in Switzerland)
* 22 April – Phil May, caricaturist (died 1903)
* 4 May – Marie Booth, third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (died 1937)
* 5 May – Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, field marshal (died 1922)
* 25 May – Herbie Hewett, cricketer (died 1921)
* 10 June – Ninian Comper, architect (died 1960)
* 18 July – Philip Snowden politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1937)
* 11 September – Mark Sheridan, music-hall performer (suicide 1918)
* 14 September – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1958)
* 31 October – Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945)
* 26 November – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (died 1947)

## Deaths[edit]

* 29 January
* Lucy Aikin, writer (born 1781)
* Julia Maitland, writer on India and for children (born 1808)
* 2 February – Adelaide Anne Procter, poet (born 1825)
* 10 February – William Henry Hunt, watercolour painter (born 1790)
* 14 February – William Dyce, painter (born 1806)
* 11 March – Richard Roberts, mechanical engineer (born 1789)
* 16 March – Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sporting writer (born 1805)
* 21 March – Luke Howard, meteorologist and manufacturing chemist (born 1772)
* 5 April – Alaric Alexander Watts, poet and journalist (born 1797)
* 16 April – George Webster, architect (born 1797)
* 26 April – John Shuttleworth, industrialist and political campaigner (born 1786)
* 5 May – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist, marine algolologist (born 1786)
* 20 May – John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (born 1793)
* 17 June – William Cureton, Orientalist (born 1808)
* 6 August – Catherine Sinclair, Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1800)
* 15 September – John Hanning Speke, explorer (born 1827)
* 17 September – Walter Savage Landor, writer and poet (born 1775)
* 1 October – Ignatius Spencer, priest (born 1799)
* 25 November – David Roberts, painter (born 1796)
* 4 December – John Fowler, agricultural engineer (born 1826)
* 8 December – George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
* 21 December – Joshua Fawcett, clergyman and writer (born 1809)
* 23 December – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (born 1804)
* 24 December – Princess Caraboo, impostor (born 1791)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 284–285. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. ^ Previously Schneider, Hannay & Co.
4. ^ Newlands, John A. R. (20 August 1864). "On Relations Among the Equivalents". Chemical News. 10: 94–95. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
5. ^ By Order in Council 9 July. "The Birth of Todays Royal Navy's Ensign". Historical Flags of Our Ancestors. NAVA. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
6. ^ "Wrexham football club could be older than thought". BBC News. 21 February 2012.
7. ^ "North Devon and West of England Golf Club". Exeter & Plymouth Gazette. 18 November 1864. p. 7.
8. ^ Maxwell, J. Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 155: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
9. ^ "Next history". Next plc. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
10. ^ "History". Oriel Chambers. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
11. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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