- 1896 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1896 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , ConservativeEvents
*2 January - TheJameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to theBoer s.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 324-325|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*6 January -Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier ofCape Colony over the Jameson Raid.
*28 January - Walter Arnold ofKent receives the firstspeeding conviction for driving in excess of the contemporaryspeed limit of 2 mph.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*12 March - Salisbury orders a military campaign to combat increasing French influence in theSudan .
*6 April –15 April - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the1896 Summer Olympics and win 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.
*4 May - "Daily Mail " newspaper founded.
*8 May - Cricket: AgainstWarwickshire ,Yorkshire sets a still-standingCounty Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
*7 June -Mahdist War : British andEgypt ian victory at theBattle of Ferkeh .
*12 June - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in1931 .
* July - Law requiring a man to walk in front of moving cars waving a red flag is repealed.
*17 August -Bridget Driscoll becomes the first person the world to be killed in a car accident.
*27 August
** The shortest war in recorded history, theAnglo-Zanzibar War , starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
** Britain establishes a Protectorate overAshanti .
*22 September - Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
*23 September - Kitchener capturesDongola in the Sudan.
*14 November
** An Locomotives on the Highway Act raises the speed limit for road vehicles from 4 to 14 mph.
** TheLondon to Brighton Veteran Car Run is held for the first time to celebrate the Locomotives on the Highway Act. [cite web|url=http://www.lbvcr.com/history.cfm|title=London to Brighton Veteran Car Run|accessdate=2008-03-30]
*14 December -Glasgow Subway "(pictured)", the third oldest metro system in the world after theLondon Underground and theBudapest Metro , begins operations inGlasgow .Undated
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Frederick Temple enthroned asArchbishop of Canterbury .Publications
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Alfred Edward Housman 's poetry collection "A Shropshire Lad ".Births
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7 January -Arnold Ridley , actor (died 1984)
*3 May -Dodie Smith , novelist and playwright (died 1990)
*6 June -Henry Allingham , the oldest surviving British veteran of the First World War
*19 June -Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor , American wife ofEdward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
*19 July -A. J. Cronin , novelist (died 1981)
*14 October -Bud Flanagan , comedian and singer (died 1968)
*16 November -Oswald Mosley , leader of the British Union of Fascists (died 1980)Deaths
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13 August -John Everett Millais , painter (born 1829)
*3 October -William Morris , artist, writer and socialist (born 1834)
*11 October -Edward White Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1829)
*21 October -James Henry Greathead , engineer and inventor (born 1844, South Africa)References
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