1894 in the United Kingdom

1894 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1894 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal (until 2 March), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Liberal

Events

* 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb. [cite web |title = Propaganda by Deed| url = http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.413 | accessdate = 2008-02-17]
* 1 March - Local Government Act creates parish councils, and gives women the vote in local (but not national) elections.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 321-322|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 3 March - William Gladstone resigns over high Navy estimates.
* 5 March - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
* 11 April - Britain establishes a Protectorate over Uganda.
* 12 April - The annual Budget establishes death duties.
* 21 April - Debut of the George Bernard Shaw play "Arms and the Man" in London.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 14 May - Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool, Lancashire.
* 21 May - The Manchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.
* 30 June - Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.
* 2 August - Death duties introduced.
* 28 September - Marks & Spencer starts life as a market stall in Leeds Kirkgate Market.
* 13 October - Everton F.C. and Liverpool F.C. meet in the first Merseyside derby.

Undated

* Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.
* Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
* Alfred Harmsworth buys the London newspaper "Evening News".cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=448–449]

Publications

* Arthur Conan Doyle's anthology "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes".
* George du Maurier's novel "Trilby".
* Anthony Hope's novel "The Prisoner of Zenda".
* Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Jungle Book".

Births

* 10 February - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
* 6 June - Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (died 1972)
* 23 June - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
* 26 July - Aldous Huxley, author (died 1963)
* 13 September - J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (died 1984)
* 24 September - Tommy Armour, golfer (died 1968)
* 24 November - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (died 1978)

Deaths

* 20 January - Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
* 23 May - Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
* 3 December - Robert Louis Stevenson, author (born 1850)
* 24 December - Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (born 1827)
* 29 December - Christina Rossetti, poet (born 1830)

References

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