- 1889 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1889 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , ConservativeEvents
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12 February - TheLondon County Council electsArchibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery as its first chairman.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 315-316|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*31 May - TheNaval Defence Act 1889 dictates that the fleet strength of theRoyal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.
*12 June - 88 are killed in theArmagh rail disaster nearArmagh inNorthern Ireland .
* July -County Council s established in Scotland.
*6 July - Several aristocrats are implicated in theCleveland Street scandal after police raid a male brothel inLondon .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8]
*3 August -Mahdist War :Egypt ian and British victory at theBattle of Toski .
*6 August - TheSavoy Hotel inLondon opens.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*14 August to15 September - London dockers strike over pay, which they eventually receive. [cite web|url=http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.77/The-Great-Dock-Strike-of-1889.html|title=The Great Dock Strike at the PortCities project|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*29 October -British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.Undated
* English football teams
Sheffield United F.C. andWimbledon F.C. formed.Publications
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Lewis Carroll 's novel "Sylvie and Bruno ".
*Jerome K. Jerome 's novel "Three Men in a Boat ".
*T. H. Huxley 's book "Agnosticism".
*Robert Louis Stevenson 's novel "The Master of Ballantrae ".
*Wisden Cricketer's Almanac publishes its first "Wisden Cricketers of the Year " (actually titled "Six Great Bowlers Of The Year"). The cricketers chosen areGeorge Lohmann ,Bobby Peel , Johnny Briggs, Charles Turner,John Ferris andSammy Woods .Births
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21 January -Edith Tolkien , wife ofJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien (died 1971)
*31 January -Frank Foster , cricketer (died 1958)
*5 February -Ernest Tyldesley , cricketer (died 1962)
*19 February -Ernest Marsden , physicist (died 1970)
*22 February -Olave Baden-Powell , founder of the Girl Guides (died 1977)
*22 February -R. G. Collingwood , philosopher and historian (died 1943)
*24 March -Albert Hill , athlete (died 1969)
*8 April -Adrian Boult , conductor (died 1983)
*16 April -Charlie Chaplin , actor and film director (died 1977)
*11 May - Paul Nash, artist (died 1946)
*1 June -Charles Kay Ogden , linguist, philosopher and writer (died 1957)
*21 August -Richard O'Connor , General in WWII (died 1981)
*25 September -C. K. Scott-Moncrieff , writer and translator (died 1930)
*30 November -Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian , physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)Deaths
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8 June -Gerard Manley Hopkins , poet (born 1844)
*23 September -Wilkie Collins , novelist (born 1824)
*11 October -James Prescott Joule , physicist (born 1818)
*12 December -Robert Browning , poet (born 1812)References
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