1864 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1864 English cricket season

Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister The Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)

Events

• 11 January Charing Cross railway station in London opens.^[1]
• 11 March Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.
• 24 March Britain cedes the Ionian Islands to Greece.^[2]
• 20 August John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the chemical elements.^[3]
• 5–6 September Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyo Lord Mori Takachika of the Ch sh clan based in Shimonoseki, Japan.
• 28 September International Workingmen's Association founded in London.^[1]
• 10 October Quebec Conference to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada, begins.^[2]
• 2 November HMS Victoria (1859), the Royal Navy s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line to see sea service, enters active service.
• 8 December
  • The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Bristol Avon, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and completed as a memorial to him, opens to traffic.^[1]
  • James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.^[4]

Undated

• Ending of Second Anglo-Ashanti war.
• Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, the world's first metal-framed glass curtain walled building, designed by Peter Ellis (architect), is built.^[5]

Publications

• John Wisden publishes the first edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. It goes on to become the major annual cricket publication.
• Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend.
• Amelia Edwards' novel Barbara's History.
• James Payn's novel Lost Sir Massingberd.^[6]
• Anthony Trollope's novel The Small House at Allington and Can You Forgive Her? (serialisation).
• John Henry Newman's spiritual autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua.

Births

• 8 January Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (died 1892)
• 20 February Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (died 1925)
• 22 April Phil May, caricaturist (died 1903)
• 14 September Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1958)
• 31 October Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945)
• 26 November Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (died 1947)

Deaths

• 29 January Lucy Aikin, writer (born 1781)
• 17 June William Cureton, Orientalist (born 1808)
• 15 September John Hanning Speke, explorer (born 1827)
• 8 December George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)

References

See also