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UK-related events during the year of 1872
Events from the year 1872 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 January –
C. P. Scott becomes editor of
The Manchester Guardian , a position he will hold until 1929.
January – opening of trial of
Christiana Edmunds , the Brighton "Chocolate Cream Killer", for poisoning, at which she is found guilty.
2 February – British government buys a number of forts on the
Gold Coast from the
Netherlands .
[1]
5 March –
Tichborne case decided against the impostor
Arthur Orton .
11 March – work begins setting up
Seven Sisters Colliery in
South Wales , located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
16 March – in the
first ever final of the
FA Cup , the world's oldest
football competition,
Wanderers F.C. defeat
Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at
The Oval in
Kennington ,
London .
[2]
May –
Rangers F.C. play their first ever game on the public pitches of Glasgow Green.
June – American-born painter
James McNeill Whistler exhibits
Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother , painted the previous year in London, at the
Royal Academy summer exhibition .
3 July – Queen Victoria opens the
Albert Memorial in memory of her husband
Prince Albert .
[3]
18 July
5 August –
Hastings Pier opened. Designed by
Eugenius Birch , it is the first in Britain with an entertainment pavilion incorporated from new.
[4]
10 August –
Portland
Breakwater completed.
15 August –
1872 Pontefract by-election , a
ministerial by-election which is the first UK Parliamentary election held by
secret ballot following the Ballot Act. The incumbent
Hugh Childers retains his seat.
18 August –
Licensing Act establishes licences for
public houses and limits drinking hours.
[1]
1 September – a group of Icaiche
Maya under Marcos Canul attack
Orange Walk Town in
British Honduras as part of the
Caste War of Yucatán . British troops are sent against them.
7 October – an underground
explosion at Morley Main Colliery,
Morley, West Yorkshire , kills 34.
[5]
9 October –
University College Wales opens at
Aberystwyth .
16 November –
London Metropolitan Police strike.
21 November – Wigan F.C. founded, the first Association football team in
Wigan .[
citation needed ]
25 November – loss of the iron
sailing ship
Royal Adelaide on
Chesil Beach : 60 saved, 7 drowned.
[6]
[7]
30 November –
Scotland v England , the first
FIFA -recognized international
Association football match, takes place at
Hamilton Crescent in
Scotland .
[2] The result is a goalless draw.
6 December –
Springwell Pit disaster at
Dawley in Shropshire: eight coal miners fall to their death when a winding chain snaps.
12 December – a
meteorite strikes Earth near
Banbury .
21 December – the
Challenger expedition sails from
Portsmouth on the four year scientific expedition that will lay the foundation for the science of
oceanography .
Undated
Last recorded uses of the
stocks for judicial punishment, at
Newbury, Berkshire (11 June)
[8] and
Adpar ,
Newcastle Emlyn ,
west Wales .
[9]
Exceptionally consistent rain brings the wettest calendar year on record over England and Wales with 1,284.9 millimetres (50.6 in) beating previous record from 1768 by 37.6 millimetres (1.5 in). The nearest approach since has been
2012 with 1,244.3 millimetres (49.0 in) and
2000 with 1,232.5 millimetres (48.5 in).
[10]
Publications
Births
16 January –
Edward Gordon Craig , theatrical designer (died 1966)
11 February –
Hannah Mitchell , socialist, suffragette (died 1956)
12 February –
Alexander Gibb , Scottish-born civil engineer (died 1958)
11 March –
K. C. Groom , fiction writer (died 1954)
25 April –
C. B. Fry , cricketer (died 1956)
5 May –
Norman Smith , Scottish philosopher (died 1958)
12 May –
Eleanor Rathbone , social campaigner and politician (died 1946)
18 May –
Bertrand Russell , philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1970)
31 May –
Heath Robinson , cartoonist and illustrator (died 1944)
13 June –
Chrystal Macmillan , Scottish mathematician, suffragist, politician, barrister and pacifist (died 1937)
2 July –
Horace Short , aircraft designer (died 1917)
4 July –
Harry Tate , born Ronald Macdonald Hutchison, music hall comedian (died 1940)
23 July –
Edward Wilson , explorer, physician, naturalist and ornithologist (died 1912 in Antarctica)
25 July –
Herbert Stanley , Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia (died 1955)
21 August –
Aubrey Beardsley , artist (died 1898)
[11]
4 October –
Roger Keyes , admiral (died 1945)
8 October –
John Cowper Powys , writer and philosopher (died 1963)
12 October –
Ralph Vaughan Williams , composer (died 1958)
30 October –
Louisa Martindale , physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (died 1966)
20 November –
Alfred Mylne , yacht designer (died 1951)
11 December –
René Bull , illustrator, photographer (died 1942)
26 December –
Norman Angell , politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (died 1967)
Edith Garrud , née Williams, pioneer martial artist and suffragist (died 1971)
Deaths
14 January –
Greyfriars Bobby , faithful Scottish terrier (born 1855)
6 February – Sir
Thomas Phillipps , book collector (born 1792)
16 February –
Henry Chorley , critic (born 1808)
27 February –
John McLeod Campbell , Scottish theologian (born 1800)
8 March –
Priscilla Susan Bury , botanist (born 1799)
[12]
11 March –
Emily Taylor , writer for children (born 1795)
1 April –
Frederick Denison Maurice , theologian (born 1805)
23 May –
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer , politician, diplomat and writer (born 1801)
20 August –
William Miller , Scottish children's poet (born 1810)
18 September –
Herbert Haines , clergyman, archaeologist and schoolteacher (born 1826)
23 November – Sir
John Bowring , colonial administrator, 4th
Governor of Hong Kong (born 1792)
28 November –
Mary Somerville , mathematician (born 1780)
10 December –
Edwin Norris , philologist, linguist and orientalist (born 1795)
15 December –
Mary Anne Disraeli , wife of
Benjamin Disraeli (born 1792)
24 December –
Macquorn Rankine , Scottish pioneer of thermodynamics (born 1820)
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ISBN
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ISBN
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