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UK-related events during the year of 1864
Events from the year
1864 in the
United Kingdom.
- 11 January –
Charing Cross railway station in
London opens.
[1]
- 11 March –
Great Sheffield Flood: the
Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating
Sheffield.
- 29 March –
Treaty of London: Britain voluntarily cedes control of the
United States of the Ionian Islands to the
Kingdom of Greece with effect from 2 May.
[2]
- 1 April –
Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Company registered to take over and expand the works at
Barrow-in-Furness,
[3] which will become the world's largest
steel mill.
- April –
Giuseppe Garibaldi visits England.
- 7 May –
City of Adelaide is launched at
Sunderland by
William Pile, Hay and Co. for the Australia trade; by 2014 she will be the world's oldest surviving
clipper.
- c. May–June – Ending of Second
Anglo-Ashanti war.
- June –
overarm bowling legalised in
cricket.
- 20 August –
John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the
first periodic table of the
chemical elements.
[4]
- 5–6 September –
Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British,
Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or
daimyō Lord
Mōri Takachika of the
Chōshū clan based in
Shimonoseki, Japan.
- 28 September –
International Workingmen's Association founded in London.
[1]
- 10 October –
Quebec Conference to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of
Canada, begins.
[2]
- 18 October – abolition of
squadron colours in the
Royal Navy, reserving the
White Ensign to the Navy, the
Red Ensign to the
Merchant Navy and the
Blue Ensign to military vessels.
[5]
- 22 October – the predecessor of
Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest
association football club in Wales and the world's sixth
oldest football club and third oldest professional team.
[6]
- 2 November –
HMS Victoria (1859), the Royal Navy's last, largest and fastest wooden
first-rate three-decker
ship of the line to see sea service, enters active service.
- 10 November – first match played on the newly laid out
Royal North Devon Golf Club course, the oldest surviving in England.
[7]
- 8 December
- Undated
- 8 January –
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (died 1892)
- 21 January –
Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright (died 1926)
- 20 February –
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (died 1925)
- 12 March –
W. H. R. Rivers, psychiatrist (died 1922)
- 6 April –
William Bate Hardy, biologist and food scientist (died 1934)
- 9 April –
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, electrical engineer and inventor (died 1930 in Switzerland)
- 22 April –
Phil May, caricaturist (died 1903)
- 4 May –
Marie Booth, third daughter of
William and
Catherine Booth (died 1937)
- 5 May –
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, field marshal (died 1922)
- 25 May –
Herbie Hewett, cricketer (died 1921)
- 10 June –
Ninian Comper, architect (died 1960)
- 18 July –
Philip Snowden politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1937)
- 11 September –
Mark Sheridan, music-hall performer (suicide 1918)
- 14 September –
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (died 1958)
- 31 October –
Cosmo Lang,
Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945)
- 26 November –
Edward Higgins, 3rd General of
The Salvation Army (died 1947)
- 29 January
- 2 February –
Adelaide Anne Procter, poet (born 1825)
- 10 February –
William Henry Hunt, watercolour painter (born 1790)
- 14 February –
William Dyce, painter (born 1806)
- 11 March –
Richard Roberts, mechanical engineer (born 1789)
- 16 March –
Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sporting writer (born 1805)
- 21 March –
Luke Howard,
meteorologist and manufacturing chemist (born 1772)
- 5 April –
Alaric Alexander Watts, poet and journalist (born 1797)
- 16 April –
George Webster, architect (born 1797)
- 26 April –
John Shuttleworth, industrialist and political campaigner (born 1786)
- 5 May –
Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist, marine
algolologist (born 1786)
- 20 May –
John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (born 1793)
- 17 June –
William Cureton, Orientalist (born 1808)
- 6 August –
Catherine Sinclair, Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1800)
- 15 September –
John Hanning Speke, explorer (born 1827)
- 17 September –
Walter Savage Landor, writer and poet (born 1775)
- 1 October –
Ignatius Spencer, priest (born 1799)
- 25 November –
David Roberts, painter (born 1796)
- 4 December –
John Fowler, agricultural engineer (born 1826)
- 8 December –
George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
- 21 December –
Joshua Fawcett, clergyman and writer (born 1809)
- 23 December –
James Bronterre O'Brien,
Chartist leader,
reformer and journalist (born 1804)
- 24 December –
Princess Caraboo, impostor (born 1791)