- 1866 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1866 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , Liberal (until28 June ),Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , ConservativeEvents
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12 January -Royal Aeronautical Society is formed inLondon .
*11 May - London bankOverend, Gurney and Company collapses precipitating afinancial crisis . [ cite book | author=Elliott, G. | year=2006 | title=The Mystery of Overend & Gurney: A Financial Scandal in Victorian London | location=London | publisher=Methuen | id=ISBN 0-413-77573-9 ]
*26 June - Lord Russell resigns as Prime Minister, following splits in the Liberal Party over parliamentary reform. Earl of Derby takes over, leading a minority Conservative administration.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 287-288|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*5 July - Marriage ofPrincess Helena of the United Kingdom , third daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
*23 July to25 July - Demonstrations in Hyde Park in favour of parliamentary reform turn violent.
*27 July - TheTransatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]Undated
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Mae Hen Wlad fy Nhadau " is adopted as the national anthem of Wales.
* Acholera epidemic in London causes over 5,000 deaths."1866." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006.]
* Invention of theclinical thermometer byThomas Clifford Allbutt .
*John Langdon Down describesDown syndrome .
*Elizabeth Garrett Anderson opens theSt Mary's Dispensary where women could seek medical advice from exclusively female practitioners.
*Morris Chair introduced byWilliam Morris .
*Colman's mustard receives aRoyal Warrant .
*John Graham Chambers founds theAmateur Athletic Club , drawing up rules for athletic competition.Publications
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George Eliot 's novel "Felix Holt, the Radical ".
*John Robert Seeley 's controversial, and anonymous, work "Ecce Homo".Births
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17 April -Ernest Starling , physiologist (died 1927)
*7 June -Ernest William Hornung , author (died 1921)
*26 June -George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , financier of Egyptian excavations (died 1923)
*28 July -Beatrix Potter , children's author (died 1943)
*21 September -H. G. Wells , writer (died 1946)
*12 October -Ramsay MacDonald , Prime Minister (died 1937)
*8 November -Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin , car designer (died 1941)
*30 November -Robert Broom , paleontologist (died 1951)
*"date unknown" -Ethna Carbery , Irish poet (died 1902)Deaths
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23 January -Thomas Love Peacock , satirist (born 1785)
*27 January - John Gibson, sculptor, (born 1790)
*6 March -William Whewell , scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (born 1794)
*5 April -Thomas Hodgkin , physician (born 1798)
*1 December -George Everest , geodesist (born 1790)References
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