14 February – in the
FA Cup quarter final in English
Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the
goal line. An
indirect free kick is awarded, since the
penalty kick, proposed the previous year by
William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as 'an Irishman's motion'.
1–28 February – the driest month in the
EWP series with an average of only 3.6 millimetres (0.14 in).[1]
9–12 March – the
Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.[2][3]
17 March – the British steamship
SS Utopia sinks in the inner harbour of
Gibraltar after collision with the battleship
HMS Anson, killing 564.[4]
18 March – official opening of the
London–
Paris telephone link, opening to the public on 1 April.[5]
5 April –
census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in
England and Wales and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total
English population. The number of Welsh speakers in Wales is recorded for the first time and constitutes 54.4% of the population.
1–9 June –
royal baccarat scandal: the Prince of Wales, the future
Edward VII, appears as a witness in a trial for
slander in the case of an army officer accused of cheating in an illegal gambling game at which the Prince was present.[6]
2 April –
Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor and film director (died 1957)
22 April –
Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (died 1989)
25 April –
Ivor Brown, journalist and author (died 1974)
7 May –
Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (died 1988)
17 May –
Lady Alexandra Duff, later Duchess of Fife suo jure and HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught by marriage, member of the British royal family and nurse (died 1959)
^"Baptist History". Baptist Union of Great Britain. 2008. Archived from
the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
^Negev, Eilat; Koren, Yehuda (2011). The First Lady of Fleet Street: A Biography of Rachel Beer. London: JR Books.
ISBN978-1-906779-19-1. Mrs Beer called the shots, though she left the drudgery of the newspaper's day-to-day details in [editor Clement] Kinloch-Cooke's hands.
^Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
14 February – in the
FA Cup quarter final in English
Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the
goal line. An
indirect free kick is awarded, since the
penalty kick, proposed the previous year by
William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as 'an Irishman's motion'.
1–28 February – the driest month in the
EWP series with an average of only 3.6 millimetres (0.14 in).[1]
9–12 March – the
Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.[2][3]
17 March – the British steamship
SS Utopia sinks in the inner harbour of
Gibraltar after collision with the battleship
HMS Anson, killing 564.[4]
18 March – official opening of the
London–
Paris telephone link, opening to the public on 1 April.[5]
5 April –
census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in
England and Wales and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total
English population. The number of Welsh speakers in Wales is recorded for the first time and constitutes 54.4% of the population.
1–9 June –
royal baccarat scandal: the Prince of Wales, the future
Edward VII, appears as a witness in a trial for
slander in the case of an army officer accused of cheating in an illegal gambling game at which the Prince was present.[6]
2 April –
Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor and film director (died 1957)
22 April –
Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (died 1989)
25 April –
Ivor Brown, journalist and author (died 1974)
7 May –
Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (died 1988)
17 May –
Lady Alexandra Duff, later Duchess of Fife suo jure and HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught by marriage, member of the British royal family and nurse (died 1959)
^"Baptist History". Baptist Union of Great Britain. 2008. Archived from
the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
^Negev, Eilat; Koren, Yehuda (2011). The First Lady of Fleet Street: A Biography of Rachel Beer. London: JR Books.
ISBN978-1-906779-19-1. Mrs Beer called the shots, though she left the drudgery of the newspaper's day-to-day details in [editor Clement] Kinloch-Cooke's hands.
^Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.