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1862 in the United Kingdom
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Sport
1862 English cricket season
Events from the year
1862
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Undated
3
Publications
4
Births
5
Deaths
6
References
7
See also
Incumbents
Monarch
-
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister
-
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
,
Liberal
Events
6 January
-
French
and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the
French intervention in Mexico
.
16 January
-
Hartley Colliery Disaster
: 204 miners die in a disaster at the Hartley Colliery in
Northumberland
.
[1]
15 March
- Riots in
Stalybridge
, Lancashire, over
cotton
recession.
[2]
21 March
-
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
appointed
Governor-General of India
.
[3]
1 May
- International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in
South Kensington
.
[2]
1 July
- Marriage of
Princess Alice
, second daughter of
Queen Victoria
, to
Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine
.
14 September
- a British national,
Charles Lenox Richardson
, is killed in
Japan
by
samurai
in the
Namamugi Incident
. Three companions escaped, though two were seriously injured.
11 October
- Jessie M'Lachlan executed having been found guilty in the
Sandyford murder case
in
Scotland
.
November - Criminal law amended to make
robbery
with violence punishable by
flogging
.
[2]
Undated
Charles Thomas Longley
enthroned as
Archbishop of Canterbury
.
Joseph Bazalgette
begins construction of the
Thames Embankment
in London.
[2]
Publications
Serialisation of
George Eliot
's novel
Romola
.
Births
29 January
-
Frederick Delius
, composer (d.
1934
)
2 July
-
William Henry Bragg
, physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1942
)
5 August
-
Joseph Merrick
, "The Elephant Man" (d.
1890
)
26 August
-
Herbert Booth
, the third son of
William
and
Catherine Booth
(d.
1926
)
3 October
-
Johnny Briggs
, cricketer (d.
1902
)
Deaths
3 April
-
James Clark Ross
, naval officer and explorer (b.
1800
)
29 June
-
James Bowman Lindsay
, inventor (b.
1799
)
18 December
-
Lucas Barrett
, naturalist and geologist (b.
1837
)
John Bird Sumner
, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1780
)
References
^
Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Disaster 1862
^
a
b
c
d
Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd, 283-284.
ISBN 0-7126-5616-2
.
^
William L. R. Cates (1863).
The Pocket Date Book
. Chapman and Hall.
See also
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