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UK-related events during the year of 1870
Events from the year 1870 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
28 January
5 March – first ever (unofficial) international
football match,
England v Scotland , takes place under the approval of
the Football Association at
The Oval ,
London .
10 May –
Jem Mace wins the
boxing championship of the world, defeating fellow Englishman Tom Allen at
Kenner , near
New Orleans .
[3]
19 May – the
Home Government Association is established in
Ireland by
Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the
Act of Union 1800 .
[4]
late Spring –
Army Enlistment (Short Service) Act 1870 allows reduction in length of enlistment to the
British Army as part of the
Cardwell Reforms .
[5]
2 June – competitive examination for entry to the British
civil service introduced.
[6]
8 June – the final splice to the first
telegraph submarine cable to
India is made off
Porthcurno ,
Cornwall .
23 June –
Keble College, Oxford , opens, the first new
college of the University of Oxford in more than a century.
2 August – official opening of the
Tower Subway beneath the
River Thames in
London , the world's first underground passenger "tube" railway.
[7] Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical
wrought iron
tunnelling shield devised by
Peter W. Barlow and
James Henry Greathead .
[8]
4 August –
British Red Cross established as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War by
Lord Wantage .
[7]
9 August
27 August –
White Star 's first
ocean liner
RMS Oceanic is launched by
Harland and Wolff in
Belfast .
[9]
7 September – masted
turret ship
HMS Captain capsizes off
Cape Finisterre , less than 5 months after commissioning, due to design flaws, with the loss of 481 lives.
1 October –
postcards and halfpenny
postage stamps introduced by the
Post Office .
[7]
19 October –
SS Cambria (1869) is wrecked on
Inishtrahull (Ireland) with the loss of 179 lives.
[10]
Undated – the
David Greig grocery chain begins with a store in London.
Publications
Births
7 January –
Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart , English judge and politician, 7th
Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1943)
25 January –
Fred Spiksley , footballer (died 1948)
5 February –
C. E. Brock , painter and illustrator (died 1938)
8 February –
Millie Hylton , actress, dancer and male impersonator (died 1920)
[13]
12 February –
Marie Lloyd , music-hall singer (died 1922)
4 March –
Thomas Sturge Moore , poet, author and artist (died 1944)
17 March –
Horace Donisthorpe , entomologist (died 1951)
9 May –
Harry Vardon , golfer (died 1937)
27 May –
Lionel Palairet , cricketer (died 1933)
4 August –
Harry Lauder , Scottish entertainer (died 1950)
11 August –
Tom Richardson , cricketer (died 1912)
12 August –
Hubert Gough , general (died 1963)
22 August –
Bertram Fletcher Robinson , journalist, editor and author (died 1907)
1 September –
Leopold Wharton , English-born American film director (died 1927)
22 September –
Charlotte Cooper , tennis player (died 1966)
[14]
21 October –
Horace Hood , admiral (killed in action 1916)
22 October –
Lord Alfred Douglas , minor
Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of writer Oscar Wilde (died 1945)
30 October –
Lawrence Grant , film actor (died 1952 in the United States)
18 November –
P. Morley Horder , architect (died 1944)
18 December –
Saki (H. H. Munro), short-story writer (killed in action 1916)
Doncaster , racehorse (died 1892)
Deaths
2 January –
Ignatius Bonomi , architect and surveyor (born 1787)
9 January –
Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr , peeress (born 1795)
20 January –
Sir George Seymour , admiral of the fleet (born 1787)
25 January –
Janet Taylor , mathematician and navigational instrument maker (born 1804)
30 March –
William Hale , inventor (born 1797)
25 April –
Daniel Maclise , historical painter (born 1806)
6 May –
Sir James Young Simpson , physician and researcher (born 1811)
14 May –
Thomas Dale , Anglican priest, Dean of Rochester (born 1797)
17 May –
David Octavius Hill , Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born 1802)
24 April –
Louisa Stuart Costello , miniature-painter, poet, historical novelist and travel writer (born 1799)
9 June –
Charles Dickens , novelist (born 1812)
27 June –
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon , diplomat and statesman (born 1800)
12 September –
Eleanora Atherton , philanthropist in Manchester (born 1782)
25 September –
John Braithwaite , engineer, inventor of the first steam fire engine (born 1797)
6 October –
James Giles , painter (born 1801)
11 October –
Margaret Waters , serial killer, hanged (born 1835)
21 October –
Charles George James Arbuthnot , general (born 1801)
8 December –
Thomas Brassey , railway contractor (born 1805)
9 December –
Patrick MacDowell , sculptor (born 1799)
28 December –
Philip Hardwick , architect (born 1792)
References
^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 . Caterham: Marden. p. 15.
^
"Loss of City of Boston, Halifax to Liverpool, 1870" . The Ships List . Archived from
the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2008 .
^ Mace, Ralph.
"Jem Mace, Champion of the World" . Retrieved 9 August 2010 .
^
a
b Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
422–423 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Ensor, R. C. K. (1936). "England 1870–1914". The Oxford History of England, 14 . Oxford University Press. p. 16.
^
a
b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 291–292.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
a
b
c
d Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Smith, Denis (2001). Civil Engineering Heritage: London and the Thames Valley . Thomas Telford. pp. 22–23.
ISBN
0-7277-2876-8 .
^ Othfors, Daniel (15 March 2018).
"Oceanic (I)" . The Great Ocean Liners . Retrieved 16 May 2021 .
^
"The Wreck of the Cambria" .
The New York Times . 28 October 1870. Retrieved 5 November 2012 .
^ With sheet 108, covering south-west Northumberland.
Hewitt, Rachel (2011) [2010]. Map of a Nation: a biography of the Ordnance Survey . London: Granta. p. 305.
ISBN
978-1-84708-254-1 .
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^
Gänzl, Kurt (2001).
The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: Gi-N . Schirmer Books. p. 1210.
ISBN
9780028655734 .
^
"Olympedia – Charlotte Cooper" . www.olympedia.org . Retrieved 20 July 2021 .