1864 in the United Kingdom
- 1864 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal
Events
* 11 January - Charing Cross railway station in London opens.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]* 11 March - Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.
* 24 March - Britain cedes the Ionian Islands to Greece.[cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 284-285|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2] ]
* 5 September–6 September - Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or "daimyo" Lord Mori Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki, Japan.
* 28 September - International Workingmen's Association founded in London.
* 10 October - Quebec Conference to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada, begins.
* 8 December - The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the River Avon, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens to traffic.Undated
* James Clerk Maxwell discovers microwaves.
* John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the elements.
Publications
* John Wisden publishes first edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. It goes on to become the major annual cricket publication.
* Charles Dickens's novel "Our Mutual Friend".
* Anthony Trollope's novel "The Small House at Allington" and "Can You Forgive Her?" (serialisation).
Births
* 8 January - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (d. 1892)
* 20 February - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (d. 1925)
* 22 April - Phil May, caricaturist (d. 1903)
* 14 September - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
* 31 October - Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1945)
* 26 November - Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)
Deaths
* 29 January - Lucy Aikin, writer (b. 1781)
* 15 September - John Hanning Speke, explorer (b. 1827)
* 8 December - George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
References
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