1863 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1863 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

* 8 January - Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
* 10 January - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street)."1863." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006.]
* 7 February - "HMS Orpheus" sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.
* 10 March - Marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 15 August–17 August - Bombardment of Kagoshima: Royal Navy bombards the town of Kagoshima in Japan in retribution after the Namamugi Incident of 1862.
* 26 October - The Football Association founded.
* 19 December - Linoleum patented.

Undated

* The government rejects the Greek Assembly's choice of Prince Alfred as the successor to the deposed Otto of Greece.
* Richard Owen publishes the first description of a fossilised bird, "Archaeopteryx".
* A scarlet fever epidemic causes over 30,000 deaths.

Publications

* Charles Kingsley's children's novel "The Water Babies".cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 283-284|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* Henry Walter Bates's work "The Naturalist on the River Amazons".
* Charles Lyell's work "Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man", endorsing the views of Charles Darwin.

Births

* 17 January - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (died 1945)
* 11 March - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (died 1915)
* 27 March - Henry Royce, automobile pioneer (died 1933)
* 15 May - Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (died 1936)
* 29 May - Arthur Mold, cricketer (died 1921)
* 13 June - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, fashion designer (died 1942)
* 6 July - Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (died 1943)
* 21 July - C. Aubrey Smith, actor (died 1948)
* 13 September - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935)
* 16 October - Austen Chamberlain, statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1937)

Deaths

* 9 March - John Gully, sportsman and politician (born 1783)
* 24 August - Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, soldier (born 1792)
* 24 December - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (born 1811)

References

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