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1865 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1865 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
- 9 April - Laurence Hope, poet (died 1904)
- 2 June - George Lohmann, cricketer (died 1901)
- 3 June - King George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)
- 15 July - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (died 1922)
- 12 October - Arthur Harden, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 20 October - Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet, judge (died 1955)
- 27 October - Tinsley Lindley, footballer (died 1940)
- 4 December - Edith Cavell, nurse (died 1915)
- 30 December - Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
Deaths
- 6 February - Isabella Beeton, cook and expert on household management (born 1836)
- 11 March - Robert Hermann Schomburgk, explorer (b. 1804, Freiburg)
- 8 June - Joseph Paxton, gardener and architect (born 1803)
- 25 July - James Barry, military surgeon (born 1795)
- 12 August - William Jackson Hooker, botanist (born 1785)
- 9 September - William Henry Smyth, astronomer and admiral (born 1788)
- 18 October - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (born 1784)
- 1 November - John Lindley, botanist (born 1799)
- 8 November - Thomas Sayers, boxer (born 1826)
- 12 November - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist and biographer (born 1810)
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