1862 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864

Sport

1862 English cricket season

Events from the year 1862 in the United Kingdom.

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

See also