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UK-related events during the year of 1880
Events from the year 1880 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January–March – great fog continues to engulf
London .
[1]
21 January – an underground
firedamp
explosion at Fair Lady Pit,
Leycett , in the
North Staffordshire Coalfield , kills 62
coal miners .
[2]
[3]
31 January – training frigate
HMS Atalanta leaves
Bermuda bound for
Falmouth but is lost in the Atlantic with all 281 on board.
2 February – the first successful shipment of frozen
mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven .
[4]
8 March – the
Conservative Party lose the
general election to the
Liberal Party .
[5]
19 March – Rev.
Sidney Faithorn Green is imprisoned for over 2 years in
Lancaster Castle and will be deprived of his parish in Manchester as a result of proceedings under the
Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 .
3 April –
Gilbert and Sullivan 's
comic opera
The Pirates of Penzance has its
London debut at the
Opera Comique on the
Strand .
[6]
18 April –
William Ewart Gladstone succeeds
Benjamin Disraeli as
Prime Minister . This is Gladstone's second term as prime minister.
[5]
19 April –
Second Anglo-Afghan War : British victory at the
Battle of Ahmed Khel .
20 April –
Victoria University chartered and incorporates
Owens College, Manchester .
20 May – foundation stone laid for
Truro Cathedral in
Cornwall , the first to be built on a new site since the 13th century.
[7]
15 July – an underground firedamp explosion at
Risca Colliery in the
Crosskeys district of
Monmouthshire kills 120 coal miners
[8]
[9] and 69 horses.
[10]
27 July – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan victory at the
Battle of Maiwand .
2 August –
Time in the United Kingdom :
Greenwich Mean Time adopted as the legal standard throughout Great Britain by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act.
[11]
26 August –
Elementary Education Act ("
Mundella 's Act") enforces school attendance up to the age of ten in England and Wales.
[12]
1 September – Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the
Battle of Kandahar .
6–8 September – first
cricket
Test match held in Britain.
[6]
8 September – an underground explosion at
Seaham Colliery ,
County Durham , kills 164 coal miners.
[13]
October – Irish tenants
ostracise landholder's agent
Charles Boycott .
[6]
29 October –
Wells lifeboat disaster :
RNLI
life-boat Eliza Adams of
Wells-next-the-Sea ,
Norfolk ,
capsizes on service; 11 of 13 crew lost.
[14]
17 November – the
University of London awards the first degrees to women.
[11]
27 November – Rev.
Richard Enraght is imprisoned for 49 days in Warwick Prison and deprived of his parish in Birmingham as a result of proceedings under the
Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 .
10 December – an underground firedamp explosion at Naval Steam Colliery,
Penygraig , in the
Rhondda , kills 101 coal miners.
[15]
15 December – first performance of a play by
Henrik Ibsen in English,
The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands ) at the
Gaiety Theatre, London .
[16]
16 December
20 December – First Boer War: British forces defeated in the
action at Bronkhorstspruit .
24 December – first festival of
Nine Lessons and Carols devised by
Edward White Benson , at this time
Bishop of Truro .
[17]
Undated
Publications
Births
28 January –
Herbert Strudwick , cricketer (died 1970)
8 February –
Arthur Greenwood , politician (died 1954)
17 February –
Reginald Farrer , botanist (died 1920)
1 March –
Lytton Strachey , biographer and critic, member of the Bloomsbury Group (died 1932)
[19]
6 March –
Jameson Adams , Antarctic explorer, Royal Navy officer and civil servant (died 1962)
17 April –
Leonard Woolley , archaeologist (died 1960)
30 April –
Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie , cartoonist (died 1967)
25 May –
Alf Common , footballer (died 1946)
21 June –
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp , economist (died 1941)
12 August –
Radclyffe Hall , author and poet (died 1943)
13 August –
Mary Macarthur , trade unionist (died 1921)
23 August –
Wyndham Standing , English actor (died 1963)
16 September –
Alfred Noyes , poet (died 1958)
22 September –
Christabel Pankhurst , suffragette (died 1958)
23 September –
John Boyd Orr , physician and biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
15 October –
Marie Stopes , birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (died 1958)
28 October –
Saxon Sydney-Turner , civil servant, eccentric, member of the Bloomsbury Group (died 1962)
2 November –
John Foulds , classical music composer (died 1939)
9 November –
Giles Gilbert Scott , architect (died 1960)
10 November –
Jacob Epstein , American-born sculptor (died 1959)
25 November –
Elsie J. Oxenham , children's novelist (died 1960)
Deaths
27 January –
Edward Middleton Barry , architect (born 1830)
2 February –
Sir George Hamilton Seymour , diplomat (born 1797)
3 April –
John Laing , bibliographer and Free Church of Scotland minister (born 1809)
12 April –
Joseph Brown , Roman Catholic bishop (born 1796)
6 May –
Charles Meredith , Welsh-born politician in Tasmania (born 1811)
30 May –
James Planché , dramatist (born 1796)
12 July –
Tom Taylor , dramatist and journalist (born 1817)
15 August –
Adelaide Neilson , actress (born 1848)
22 August –
Benjamin Ferrey , architect (born 1810)
9 September –
Charles Lowder , Anglican priest prominent in
Anglo-Catholicism and humanitarian (born 1820)
[20]
18 September –
Sir Fitzroy Kelly , lawyer and politician, last Chief Baron of the Exchequer (born 1796)
23 September –
Geraldine Jewsbury , novelist and woman of letters (born 1812)
25 September –
John Tarleton , admiral (born 1811)
5 October –
William Lassell , astronomer (born 1799)
30 November –
Jeanette Threlfall , hymnwriter (born 1821)
22 December –
George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), novelist and woman of letters (born 1819)
31 December –
John Stenhouse , Scottish chemist (born 1809)
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