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Events from the year
1894
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Undated
3
Publications
4
Births
5
Deaths
6
References
7
See also
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
^
"
Propaganda by Deed
". Retrieved on
2008
-
02-17
.
^
a
b
c
d
Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd, 321-322.
ISBN 0-7126-5616-2
.
^
a
b
c
d
e
(2006)
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library.
ISBN 0-141-02715-0
.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 448–449.
ISBN 0-304-35730-8
.
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