1880 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1880 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Victoria
- Prime Minister – Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) (until 21 April), William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) (starting 23 April)
- Parliament – 21st (until 24 March), 22nd (starting 29 April)
Events
- January–March – great fog continues to engulf London.[1]
- 21 January – an underground firedamp explosion at Fair Lady Pit, Leycett, in the North Staffordshire Coalfield, kills 62 coal miners.[2][3]
- 2 February – the first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.[4]
- 8 March – the Conservative Party lose the general election to the Liberal Party.[5]
- 3 April – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance has its London debut at the Opera Comique on the Strand.[6]
- 18 April – William Ewart Gladstone succeeds Benjamin Disraeli as Prime Minister. This is Gladstone's second term as Prime Minister.[5]
- 19 April – Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Ahmed Khel.
- 20 April – Victoria University chartered and incorporates Owens College, Manchester.
- 20 May – foundation stone laid for Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, the first to be built on a new site since the 13th century.[7]
- 15 July – an underground firedamp explosion at Risca Colliery in the Crosskeys district of Monmouthshire kills 120 coal miners[8][9] and 69 horses.[10]
- 27 July – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand.
- 2 August – Time in the United Kingdom: Greenwich Mean Time adopted as the legal standard throughout Great Britain by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act.[11]
- 26 August – Elementary Education Act enforces school attendance up to the age of ten in England and Wales.[12]
- 1 September – Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Kandahar.
- 6–8 September – first cricket Test match held in Britain.[6]
- 8 September – an underground explosion at Seaham Colliery, County Durham, kills 164 coal miners.[13]
- October – Irish tenants ostracise landholder's agent Charles Boycott.[6]
- 29 October – Wells lifeboat disaster: RNLI life-boat Eliza Adams of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, capsizes on service; 11 of 13 crew lost.[14]
- 17 November – the University of London awards the first degrees to women.[11]
- 10 December – an underground firedamp explosion at Naval Steam Colliery, Penygraig, in the Rhondda, kills 101 coal miners.[15]
- 15 December – first performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands) at the Gaiety Theatre, London.[16]
- 16 December
- High Court of Justice reorganised into the Chancery, Queen's Bench and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, with abolition of the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions.
- The Boers declare independence in Transvaal triggering the First Boer War.
- 20 December – First Boer War: British forces defeated in the Action at Bronkhorstspruit.
- 24 December – first festival of Nine Lessons and Carols devised by Edward White Benson, at this time Bishop of Truro.[17]
Undated
- Foundation of the David Greig provision merchant chain in London.
- A. & R. Scott begin producing the predecessor of Scott's Porage Oats in Scotland.[18]
Publications
- Benjamin Disraeli's novel Endymion
- Amelia Edwards' novel Lord Brackenbury.
- Thomas Hardy's novel The Trumpet-Major.
Births
- 28 January – Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (died 1970)
- 17 February – Reginald Farrer, botanist (died 1920)
- 1 March – Lytton Strachey, writer and biographer (died 1932)
- 17 April – Leonard Woolley, archaeologist (died 1960)
- 25 May – Alf Common, footballer (died 1946)
- 21 June – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, economist (died 1941)
- 12 August – Radclyffe Hall, author and poet (died 1943)
- 13 August – Mary Macarthur, trade unionist (died 1921)
- 16 September – Alfred Noyes, poet (died 1958)
- 22 September – Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (died 1958)
- 23 September – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
- 15 October – Marie Stopes, birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (died 1958)
- 2 November – John Foulds, classical music composer (died 1939)
- 9 November – Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (died 1960)
- 10 November – Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)
- 25 November – Elsie J. Oxenham, children's novelist (died 1960)
Deaths
- 6 May – Charles Meredith, Welsh-born politician in Tasmania (born 1811)
- 15 August – Adelaide Neilson, actress (born 1848)
- 18 September – Fitzroy Kelly, lawyer and politician, last Chief Baron of the Exchequer (born 1796)
- 5 October – William Lassell, astronomer (born 1799)
- 22 December – George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), writer (born 1819)
References
- Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
- "Leycett Colliery Explosion 1880". HealeyHero. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- "Collieries at Leycett". Madeley, Staffordshire. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 242. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 433–434. ISBN 978-0-304-35730-7.
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 304–305. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
- "The Cathedral Story". Truro Cathedral. Archived from the original on 21 December 2004. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
- "New Risca Pit". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- "Gwents Time Line". Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- Thompson, Ceri (2008). Harnessed: colliery horses in Wales. Cardiff: National Museum Wales. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7200-0591-2.
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
- Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 978-0-85263-091-4.
- "Report". Durham Mining Museum. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- "Wells lifeboat disaster". Sunderland Today. 2005. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2005.
- "Naval Colliery disasters". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- "English first performances". Ibsen.net. 12 May 2004. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
- "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols". bbc.co.uk. 16 December 2005. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- "Scott's Porage – Our Heritage". Scott's Porage Oats. Archived from the original on 23 September 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
See also
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