1871 in the United Kingdom
- 1871 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1871 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal
Events
* 26 January - Rugby Football Union established in London.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]
* 7 March - First rugby international; Scotland v. England.
* 21 March - Marriage of Princess Louise to John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India.
* 29 March - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
* 26 May - Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act 1871 creating four bank holidays (five in Scotland).
* 29 May - first bank holiday held on Whit Monday.
* 18 June - University Tests Act removes religious tests at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.
* 29 June - Trade unions legalised by act of parliament.
* 20 July - C. W. Alcock proposes that 'a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association', giving birth to the FA Cup.
* 17 August - Army Regulation Act centralises and regularises control of the Army.[cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 293-294|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2] ]
* 10 November - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika,Undated
* George Biddell Airy discovers astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.
* Neath RFC founded.
* Reading Football Club formed.
Publications
* Lewis Carroll's novel "Through the Looking Glass".
* George Eliot's novel "Middlemarch".
* Serialisation of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Eustace Diamonds".
* Charles Darwin's work "The Descent of Man".Births
* 18 February - Harry Brearley, inventor (died 1948)
* 19 March - Schofield Haigh, cricketer (died 1921)
* 28 March - Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
* 3 July - W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
* 24 September - Lottie Dod, athlete (died 1960)
Deaths
* 11 May - John Herschel, astronomer (born 1792)
* 1 September - James Pennethorne, architect (born 1801)
* 18 October - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (born 1791)
* 22 October - Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)
* 14 December - George Hudson, railway financier (born 1800)
* 28 December - John Henry Pratt, clergyman and mathematician (born 1809)
References
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