1887 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889

Sport

1887 English cricket season

1886-87 in English football

Events from the year 1887 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

Events

• 28 March - Irish Crimes Act suspends trial by jury in Ireland.^[1]
• 9 May - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
• 17 June - Hammersmith Bridge opens in London.^[2]
• 21 June - Britain celebrates a Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of Queen Victoria's reign.^[3]
• 22 June - Zululand becomes a British colony.^[1]
• 5 September - Theatre Royal, Exeter burnt down, and 186 people die.
• 1 October - British Empire takes over Balochistan.
• 11 November - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins.^[2]
• 13 November - Bloody Sunday, Police clash with protesters in London.^[2]
• 25 December - Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first distilled.

Undated

• Thomas Stevens is first man to bicycle around the world.

Publications

• Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet.
• Henry Rider Haggard's novels She and Allan Quatermain.
• Thomas Hardy's novel The Woodlanders.

Births

• 9 March - Phil Mead, cricketer (died 1958)
• 5 May - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1972)
• 22 June - Julian Huxley, biologist (died 1975)
• 3 August - Rupert Brooke, war poet (died 1915)
• 7 September - Edith Sitwell, poet (died 1964)
• 26 September - Edwin Keppel Bennett, writer (died 1958)
• 26 September - Barnes Wallis, scientist, engineer and inventor (died 1979)
• 1 November - L. S. Lowry, painter (died 1976)
• 17 November - Bernard Montgomery, World War II commander (died 1976)
• 23 November - Boris Karloff, actor (died 1969)

Deaths

• 13 February - Philip Bourke Marston, poet (born 1850)
• 10 June - Richard Lindon, inventor (born 1816)
• 25 July - Henry Mayhew, writer (born 1812)

References

See also