1887 in the United Kingdom
- 1887 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1887 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative
Events
* 28 March - Irish Crimes Act suspends trial by jury in Ireland.[cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 313-314|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2] ]
* 9 May - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
* 17 June - Hammersmith Bridge opens in London.[cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] ]
* 21 June - Britain celebrates a Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of Queen Victoria's reign. [ [http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page929.asp The Queen's Golden Jubilee, History of Jubilees, Queen Victoria. British Monarchy wesbite] ]
* 22 June - Zululand becomes a British colony.
* 5 September - Theatre Royal, Exeter burnt down, and 186 people die.
* 1 October - British Empire takes over Balochistan.
* 11 November - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins.
* 13 November - Bloody Sunday, Police clash with protesters in London.
* 25 December - Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first distilled.Undated
* Thomas Stevens is first man to bicycle around the world.
Publications
* Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet".
* Henry Rider Haggard's novels "She" and "Allan Quatermain".
* Thomas Hardy's novel "The Woodlanders".
Births
* 9 March - Phil Mead, cricketer (died 1958)
* 5 May - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1972)
* 22 June - Julian Huxley, biologist (died 1975)
* 3 August - Rupert Brooke, war poet (died 1915)
* 7 September - Edith Sitwell, poet (died 1964)
* 26 September - Edwin Keppel Bennett, writer (died 1958)
* 26 September - Barnes Wallis, scientist, engineer and inventor (died 1979)
* 1 November - L. S. Lowry, painter (died 1976)
* 17 November - Bernard Montgomery, World War II commander (died 1976)
* 23 November - Boris Karloff, actor (died 1969)
Deaths
* 13 February - Philip Bourke Marston, poet (born 1850)
* 10 June - Richard Lindon, inventor (born 1816)
* 25 July - Henry Mayhew, writer (born 1812)
References
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