1860 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

* March - Food and Drugs Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 281-282|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 17 March - Taranaki War between Maoris and British colonists in New Zealand begins.
* April - The last major bare-knuckle boxing match in England ends in a draw.
* May - Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to be photographed. The photographer was John Jabez Edwin Mayall. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]
* June - First golf championship, at Prestwich. Sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it was not truly open until the following year.
* 22 August - the British navy assist the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
* 30 August - the first street trams in Britain are introduced in Birkenhead.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
* 5 October - Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.
* 17 October - the first professional golf tournament, The Open Championship, held in Prestwick in Scotland.
* 18 October
** Second Opium War: Lord Elgin ordered his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burned to the ground.
** The first Convention of Peking formally ended the Second Opium War.
* 1 December - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of "Great Expectations" in the magazine "All the Year Round".
* 29 December - The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the "HMS Warrior" is launched.

Publications

* Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel "Great Expectations".
* George Eliot's novel "The Mill on the Floss".

Births

* 2 May - William Bayliss, physiologist (died 1924)
* 9 May - J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937)
* 22 July - Frederick Rolfe, writer and artist (died 1913)
* 3 August - W.K. Dickson, inventor (died 1935)
* 7 August - Alan Leo, astrologer (died 1917)
* Frederick George Jackson, Arctic explorer (died 1938)
* Lancelot Speed, illustrator (died 1931)

Deaths

* 27 January - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer (born 1773)
* 25 March - James Braid, surgeon (born 1795)
* 12 May - Sir Charles Barry, architect (born 1795)
* 16 May - Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (born 1792)
* 31 October - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral (born 1775)
* 14 December - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)

References

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