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UK-related events during the year of 1887
Events from the year
1887 in the
United Kingdom . This year was the
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria .
Incumbents
Events
12 January –
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh , while waiting to discuss his resignation from the office of
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , dies at
10 Downing Street .
[1]
20 January – Emigrant ship
Kapunda sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors.
[2]
18 February –
National Colliery disaster at Cwtch in the
Rhondda : an underground
explosion kills thirty miners.
[3]
7 March–18 April –
The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discredit
Charles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882
Phoenix Park Murders .
[4]
28 March –
Irish Crimes Act suspends trial by jury in Ireland.
[5]
31 March –
St. John Ambulance Brigade formed.
3 May –
Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester , is opened by
Princess Alexandra .
9 May –
Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show opens in
London .
28 May –
Udston mining disaster in
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire ,
Scotland : 73
coal miners die in a
firedamp
explosion at Udston Colliery.
[6]
17 June –
Hammersmith Bridge opens in London.
[7]
20 June –
Jubilee coinage first issued, including the only issue of a
double florin .
20–21 June –
Queen Victoria and the country celebrate a
Golden Jubilee , the 50th year of her reign.
[8]
21 June –
Jubilee Plot :
Clan na Gael supporters land in Britain from the United States to commit terrorist offences.
22 June –
Zululand becomes a British colony.
[5]
26 July —
Blackpool F.C. founded.
5 September –
Theatre Royal, Exeter burns down, and 186 people die.
1 October –
British Empire takes over
Balochistan .
6 October – the
Hōvis process for manufacture of breadmaking flour is
patented .
6 November – the
Association football club
Celtic F.C. is formed in
Glasgow by
Irish
Marist
Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor Children's Dinner Table .
[9]
[10]
11 November – construction of the
Manchester Ship Canal begins.
[7]
13 November –
Bloody Sunday : Police in
London clash with radical and
Irish nationalist protesters.
[7]
17 December – English adventurer
Thomas Stevens concludes the first
circumnavigation by
bicycle in
Yokohama , having set out on his
penny-farthing from
San Francisco in 1884.
25 December –
Glenfiddich single malt
Scotch whisky first distilled.
Undated
Publications
Births
10 February –
E. V. Rieu , classicist and poet (died 1972)
5 March –
Herbert Farjeon , man of the theatre (died 1945)
9 March –
Phil Mead , cricketer (died 1958)
1 May –
Alan Cunningham , World War II general (died 1983)
5 May –
Geoffrey Fisher ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1972)
24 May –
Mick Mannock , World War I flying ace (killed in action 1918)
4 June –
Ray Strachey , born Rachel Costelloe, feminist campaigner (died 1940)
21 June –
Hastings Ismay , army officer (died 1965)
22 June –
Julian Huxley , biologist (died 1975)
29 July –
William Graham , Scottish politician (died 1932)
3 August –
Rupert Brooke , war poet (died 1915)
16 August –
Hugh Dalton , politician (died 1962)
22 August –
Walter Citrine , trade unionist (died 1983)
31 August –
William McMillan , sculptor (died 1977)
7 September –
Edith Sitwell , poet (died 1964)
26 September –
Edwin Keppel Bennett , writer (died 1958)
26 September –
Barnes Wallis , scientist, engineer and inventor (died 1979)
11 October –
Henry Montgomery Campbell ,
Bishop of London (died 1970)
1 November –
L. S. Lowry , painter (died 1976)
11 November –
Maurice Elvey , born William Folkard, film director (died 1967)
17 November –
Bernard Montgomery , World War II commander (died 1976)
23 November –
Boris Karloff , born William Pratt, film actor (died 1969)
Isabel Emslie Hutton , Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (died 1960)
Deaths
12 January –
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh , politician (born 1818)
22 January –
Sir Joseph Whitworth , mechanical engineer (born 1803)
10 February –
Mrs Henry Wood , novelist (born 1814)
13 February –
Philip Bourke Marston , poet (born 1850)
4 March –
Mrs W. H. Foley , actor, singer, director and manager (born 1821)
23 April –
John Ceiriog Hughes , Welsh poet (born 1832)
7 May –
Samuel Cousins , engraver (born 1801)
8 May –
Thomas Stevenson , Scottish lighthouse engineer and meteorologist (born 1818)
21 May – Sir
Horace Jones , architect (born 1819)
10 June –
Richard Lindon , inventor (born 1816)
8 July –
John Wright Oakes , landscape painter (born 1820)
25 July –
Henry Mayhew , writer (born 1812)
16 August –
Webster Paulson , civil engineer (born 1837)
12 October –
Dinah Craik , novelist and poet (born 1826)
5 December –
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons , diplomat (born 1817)
14 December –
William Garrow Lettsom , diplomat, mineralogist and spectroscopist (born 1805)
23 December –
Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford , parson (born 1821)
References
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 280.
^
"The Loss of the Kapunda: Details of the Disaster" .
Belfast Morning News . 23 February 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 18 March 2016 .
^
"Wattstown" . Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Services Heritage Trail . Archived from
the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2010 .
^ The Times: Past, Present, Future . 1985. pp. 44–5.
^
a
b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 313–314.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"The Flag in the Wind – Features – Notable Dates in History" .
The Scots Independent . Archived from
the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2010 .
^
a
b
c Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715--0 .
^
"History of Jubilees – Queen Victoria" . The British Monarchy .
The Royal Household . Retrieved 20 January 2011 .
^
Coogan, Tim Pat (2002). Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora . Palgrave Macmillan. p. 250.
ISBN
978-1-4039-6014-6 .
^ Wagg, Stephen (2002).
British Football and Social Exclusion . Routledge. p.
196 .
ISBN
978-0-7146-5217-7 .