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- Deaths
- See also
- References
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Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents- Monarch – Victoria
- Prime Minister – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)
- Parliament – 18th
Events- 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 squadronal 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]
- 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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- Undated – Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, the world's first metal-framed glass curtain walled building, designed by Peter Ellis (architect), is built.[8]
Publications- 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).[9]
- 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- 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)
- 9 April – Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1930 in Switzerland)
- 22 April – Phil May, caricaturist (died 1903)
- 10 June – Ninian Comper, architect (died 1960)
- 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- 29 January – Lucy Aikin, writer (born 1781)
- 17 June – William Cureton, Orientalist (born 1808)
- 15 September – John Hanning Speke, explorer (born 1827)
- 8 December – George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
- 23 December – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (born 1804)
See alsoReferences1. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
2. ^1 {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|author2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=284–285|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
3. ^Previously Schneider, Hannay & Co.
4. ^{{cite journal|title=On Relations Among the Equivalents|last=Newlands|first=John A. R.|journal=Chemical News|volume=10|pages=94–95|date=20 August 1864|url=http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/EA/NEWLANDSann.HTML#newlands3|accessdate=2011-08-30| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050432/http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/EA/NEWLANDSann.HTML| archivedate= 21 July 2011 | deadurl= no}}
5. ^By Order in Council 9 July. {{cite web|title=The Birth of Todays Royal Navy's Ensign|url=http://www.loeser.us/flags/british_note_3.html|work=Historical Flags of Our Ancestors|publisher=NAVA|accessdate=2013-08-10}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=North Devon and West of England Golf Club|newspaper=Exeter & Plymouth Gazette|date=1864-11-18|page=7}}
7. ^{{cite journal|doi=10.1098/rstl.1865.0008|last=Maxwell|first=J. Clerk|title=A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field|url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field.pdf|format=PDF|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|volume=155|pages=459–512|year=1865|accessdate=2011-08-30}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.orielchambers.co.uk/#/411|title=History|publisher=Oriel Chambers|accessdate=2009-07-27}}
9. ^{{cite book|first=Q. D.|authorlink=Q. D. Leavis|last=Leavis|title=Fiction and the Reading Public|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1965}}
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