1876 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1876 English cricket season

1875 76 in English football

Events from the year 1876 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative)

Events

• 1 January The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the first registered trademark symbol, under the Trade Mark Registration Act 1875.^[1]
• April The Royal Titles Act gives Queen Victoria the title of Empress of India.^[2]
• 7 April Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, becomes Viceroy of India.^[2]
• 1 May The Settle-Carlisle Railway is opened to passenger traffic.^[3]
• 13 July The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.
• August
  • The Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, is made Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.^[2]
  • Medical Act enables (but does not require) institutions granting medical qualifications to allow them to women.
• 5 September William Gladstone's Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet is published.^[2]
• 7 October First greyhound race to use an artificial hare is held, at Hendon.^[4]

Undated

• Charles Wells opens his brewery based in Bedford.
• The Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland is founded.
• Port Vale Football Club is formed.
• Stourbridge Football Club is formed.
• Henry Wickham smuggles rubber seeds out of Brazil leading to the eventual collapse of the Amazon rubber boom.^[2]
• Grey squirrel introduced to England at Henbury Park, Cheshire.

Publications

• Walter Besant and James Rice's novel The Golden Butterfly.^[5]
• George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda.^[2]
• Anthony Trollope's book The Prime Minister, fifth of the Palliser novels.^[2]

Births

• 29 January Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
• 16 February G.M. Trevelyan, historian (died 1962)
• 11 March Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
• 28 April Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1917)
• 7 May Samuel Courtauld, art collector (died 1947)
• 13 June William Sealy Gosset, chemist (died 1937)
• 8 August
  • Charles Hamilton, children's story writer (died 1961)
  • Sophia Duleep Singh, Princess and suffragette (died 1948)
• 1 September Harriet Shaw Weaver, political activist (died 1961)
• 2 November William Haywood, architect (died 1957)
• 7 November Charlie Townsend, cricketer (died 1958)

Deaths

• 24 May Henry Kingsley, novelist (born 1830)

References

See also