1879 in the United Kingdom

1879 in the United Kingdom:
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Events from the year 1879 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative)

Events

1 January — Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford.^[1]
8 January — British army occupies Kandahar in Afghanistan.^[2]
11 January — Anglo-Zulu War begins.
22 January — Zulu troops led by King Cetshwayo massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Rorke's Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting.^[3]
March — The standard design of pillar box reverts to a cylindrical shape (the "anonymous" style cast by Andrew Handyside and Company).^[4]
2 March — Murder of Julia Martha Thomas at Richmond upon Thames.
12 March — Anglo-Zulu War: At the Battle of Intombe, a British force over one-hundred strong is ambushed and destroyed by Zulu forces.
13 March — Marriage of The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria, to Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia.
28 March — Anglo-Zulu War: British forces suffer a defeat at the Battle of Hlobane.^[3]
29 March — Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
3 April — Anglo-Zulu War: British forces successfully lift the two-month Siege of Eshowe.
12 May — John Henry Newman elevated to Cardinal.
26 May — Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
June–August — The wettest summer in England and Wales since records began in 1766, and the equal seventh-coolest since the CET series begins in 1659.^[5]
6 June — William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first ocean-going ship to be built of mild steel, the SS Rotomahana, at Dumbarton.^[6]
14 June — Sidney Faithorn Green, an Anglican priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.
4 July — The Anglo-Zulu War effectively ends with British victory at the Battle of Ulundi.^[2]
16 August — Fulham F.C. founded in London as the Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School football club.
19 August — The foundation stone of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse is laid by The Prince of Wales and The Duke of Edinburgh.^[3]
September Doncaster Rovers F.C. formed by railway fitter Albert Jenkins.
18 September — Blackpool Illuminations lit for the first time.^[3]
2 October — William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first transatlantic steamer to be built of mild steel, the SS Buenos Ayrean, at Dumbarton for Liverpool owners. On 1 December she makes her maiden voyage out of Glasgow for South America.^[7]
13 October — First female students admitted to study for degrees of Oxford University, at the new Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville Hall and with the Society of Oxford Home-Students.^[2]
17 October — Sunderland A.F.C. is formed as 'Sunderland and District Teachers A.F.C.' in the North East.
27 October — Liverpool Echo newspaper first published.^[3]
November–March 1880 — Probably the longest ever fog in the city's history engulfs London.^[8]
15–23 December — Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment.
28 December — The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses in a storm as a train passes over it, killing 78.^[2]
30 December — The comic opera The Pirates of Penzance is first presented in Paignton, Devon^[3] in a token performance for U.K. copyright reasons; the world première is given the following day in New York City, the only Gilbert and Sullivan work to have its official debut outside England.
1 January to 31 December — The combination of the severest winter since 1814, a late spring, an exceptionally cool summer and a cold dry autumn produces the third-coldest year in the CET series and the coldest since 1740,^[9] with an annual mean of 7.44 °C or 45.39 °F.

Undated

Electric street lighting introduced in London, initially on the Thames Embankment and Waterloo Bridge.^[2]
Gabardine is invented by Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry fashion house in Basingstoke.^[10]

Publications

Kate Greenaway's first book, with her own colour illustrations, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children.
Silas Hocking's novel Her Benny.^[11]
George Meredith's novel The Egoist.
Anthony Trollope's last Palliser novel The Duke's Children (serialised in All the Year Round).
The Boy's Own Paper first published (19 January).

Births

1 January
- E. M. Forster, writer (died 1970)
- Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst (died 1958)
13 January — William Reid Dick, sculptor (died 1961)
26 February — Frank Bridge, composer (died 1941)
5 March — William Beveridge, economist and social reformer (died 1963)
20 April — Robert Wilson Lynd, essayist and writer (died 1949)
26 April — Owen Willans Richardson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
29 April — Thomas Beecham, conductor (died 1961)
19 May — Viscount Waldorf Astor, businessman and politician (died 1952)
25 May — Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-British business tycoon, politician and writer (died 1964)
30 May — Colin Blythe, cricketer (died 1917)
6 June — Patrick Abercrombie, town planner (died 1957)
15 July — Joseph Campbell, poet and lyricist (died 1944)
13 August — John Ireland, composer (died 1962)
10 December — E. H. Shepard, artist and book illustrator (died 1976)
27 December — Sydney Greenstreet, actor (died 1954)

Deaths

18 February — Rayner Stephens, radical reformer and Methodist minister (born 1805)
25 February — Charles Peace, criminal (executed) (born 1832)
10 August — George Long, classical scholar (born 1800)
5 November — James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (born 1831)
6 December — William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (born 1800)

References

↑ "Nos. 48–51: Blackwell's Bookshop". Broad Street, Oxford. 2008. Archived from the original on 2 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
1 2 3 4 5 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 303–304. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Farrugia, Jean Young (1969). The Letter Box: a history of Post Office pillar and wall boxes. Fontwell: Centaur Press. ISBN 0-900000-14-7.
↑ Hadley Centre ranked Seasonal Central England temperature
↑ "SS Rotomahana". Clydebuilt. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
↑ "S/S Buenos Ayrean, Allan Line". Norway Heritage. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
↑ Met Office; Hadley Centre Ranked Central England Temperature.
↑ Cumming, Valerie; Cunnington, C. W.; Cunnington, P. E (2010). The Dictionary of Fashion History. Berg. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-84788-533-3.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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