1862 in the United Kingdom

1862 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1862 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

* 6 January - French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
* 16 January - Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 miners die in a disaster at the Hartley Colliery in Northumberland. [ [http://www.dmm.org.uk/names/n1862-01.htm Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Disaster 1862] ]
* 15 March - Riots in Stalybridge, Lancashire, over cotton recession.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 283-284|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 21 March - James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|author=William L. R. Cates|year=1863]
* 1 May - International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in South Kensington.
* 1 July - Marriage of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
* 14 September - a British national, Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan by samurai in the Namamugi Incident. Three companions escaped, though two were seriously injured.
* 11 October - Jessie M'Lachlan executed having been found guilty in the Sandyford murder case in Scotland.
* November - Criminal law amended to make robbery with violence punishable by flogging.

Undated

* Charles Thomas Longley enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the Thames Embankment in London.

Publications

* Serialisation of George Eliot's novel "Romola".

Births

* 29 January - Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
* 2 July - William Henry Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
* 5 August - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
* 26 August - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
* 3 October - Johnny Briggs, cricketer (d. 1902)

Deaths

* 3 April - James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (b. 1800)
* 29 June - James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (b. 1799)
* 18 December - Lucas Barrett, naturalist and geologist (b. 1837)

* John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)

References

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