1894 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1894 English cricket season

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Events from the year 1894 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal (until 2 March), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Liberal

Events

• 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb.^[1]
• 1 March - Local Government Act creates parish councils, and gives women the vote in local (but not national) elections.^[2]
• 3 March - William Gladstone resigns over high Navy estimates.^[2]
• 5 March - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
• 11 April - Britain establishes a Protectorate over Uganda.^[2]
• 12 April - The annual Budget establishes death duties.^[2]
• 21 April - Debut of the George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man in London.^[3]
• 14 May - Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool, Lancashire.
• 21 May - The Manchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.^[3]
• 30 June - Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.^[3]
• 2 August - Death duties introduced.^[3]
• 28 September - Marks & Spencer starts life as a market stall in Leeds Kirkgate Market.
• 13 October - Everton F.C. and Liverpool F.C. meet in the first Merseyside derby.^[3]

Undated

• Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.
• Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
• Alfred Harmsworth buys the London newspaper Evening News.^[4]

Publications

• Arthur Conan Doyle's anthology The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• George du Maurier's novel Trilby.
• Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda.
• Rudyard Kipling's novel The Jungle Book.

Births

• 10 February - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
• 6 June - Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (died 1972)
• 23 June - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
• 26 July - Aldous Huxley, author (died 1963)
• 13 September - J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (died 1984)
• 24 September - Tommy Armour, golfer (died 1968)
• 24 November - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (died 1978)

Deaths

• 20 January - Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
• 23 May - Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
• 3 December - Robert Louis Stevenson, author (born 1850)
• 24 December - Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (born 1827)
• 29 December - Christina Rossetti, poet (born 1830)

References

See also