1864 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866

Sport

1864 English cricket season

Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

• 11 January - Charing Cross railway station in London opens.^[1]

• 11 March - Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.
• 24 March - Britain cedes the Ionian Islands to Greece.^[2]
• 5 September–6 September - Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyo Lord Mori Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki, Japan.
• 28 September - International Workingmen's Association founded in London.^[1]
• 10 October - Quebec Conference to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada, begins.^[2]
• 8 December - The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the River Avon, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens to traffic.^[1]

Undated

• James Clerk Maxwell discovers microwaves.
• John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the elements.

Publications

• John Wisden publishes first edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. It goes on to become the major annual cricket publication.
• Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend.
• Anthony Trollope's novel The Small House at Allington and Can You Forgive Her? (serialisation).

Births

• 8 January - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (d. 1892)
• 20 February - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (d. 1925)
• 22 April - Phil May, caricaturist (d. 1903)
• 14 September - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
• 31 October - Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1945)
• 26 November - Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)

Deaths

• 29 January - Lucy Aikin, writer (b. 1781)
• 15 September - John Hanning Speke, explorer (b. 1827)
• 8 December - George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)

References

See also