1869 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal

Events

* 6 March - the first international cycle race is held at Crystal Palace, London.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 26 July - Irish Church Act 1869 disestablishes the Church of Ireland.
* 27 August - University of Oxford win the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University.
* 11 October - Red River Rebellion against British forces in Canada.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 290-291|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 16 October - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, is founded at Hitchin.
* 4 November - The first issue of scientific journal "Nature" is published.
* 19 November - Britain takes over administration of Canada from the Hudson Bay Company.
* 22 November - In Dumbarton, Scotland the clipper ship "Cutty Sark" is launched (it was one of the last clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).

Undated

* Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.

Publications

* R. D. Blackmore's novel "Lorna Doone".

Births

* 14 February - Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
* 3 March - Henry Wood, conductor (died 1944)
* 14 March - Algernon Blackwood, writer (died 1951)
* 18 March - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (died 1940)
* 10 August - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (died 1943)
* 20 November - Herbert Tudor Buckland, seminal Arts and crafts architect (died 1951)

Deaths

* 12 September - Peter Roget, lexicographer (born 1779)
* 23 October - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (born 1799)

References

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