1889 in the United Kingdom

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1889 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1889 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch – Victoria
  • Prime Minister – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)
  • Parliament – 24th

Events[]

  • 14 January – Birmingham is granted the status of a city, despite not (at this time) having an Anglican cathedral, which has previously been a requirement for the honour.
  • 26 January – Dundee is granted city status in the United Kingdom by letters patent.[1][2][3]
  • 12 February – The London County Council elects Lord Rosebery as its first Chairman.[4]
  • 17 February – Royal Society for the Protection of Birds founded in Manchester, originally known as "The Plumage League" to campaign against the use of plumage in women's clothing.[5]
  • 25 February – The landmark court decision in the case of The Moorcock establishes the concept of implied terms in English contract law.[6]
  • 30 March – Preston North End win the FA Cup final with a 3–0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Kennington Oval, London.[7] Having already sealed the first Football League title with no defeats all season, they complete the double.[8]
  • 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales (including the London County Council) created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers.[9][10][11]
  • 31 May – The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.[4]
  • 12 June – Eighty people are killed in the Armagh rail disaster.
  • 6 July – Several aristocrats are implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal after police raid a male brothel in London.[12]
  • 15 July – The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh[13] in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.[14]
  • 31 July – Louise, Princess Royal, marries Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.
  • 3 August
  • 6 August – The Savoy Hotel in London opens.[15]
  • 14 August to 15 September – London dockers strike for a minimum wage of sixpence an hour ("The dockers' tanner"), which they eventually received, a landmark in the development of New Unionism.[16]
  • 26 August
    • Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act ("Children's Charter") for the first time imposes criminal penalties to deter child abuse.[17]
    • Local Government (Scotland) Act establishes county councils in Scotland effective from 1890.[4]
  • 30 August
    • Technical Instruction Act empowers county and county borough councils to make grants to secondary schools and provide scholarships.[18]
    • Official opening of Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office in London.
  • 2 September – Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. move into their new Molineux stadium in the grounds of Wolverhampton's Molineux Hotel.[19]
  • 7 September
    • Sheffield United F.C. play their first match, having been formed on 22 March[20] at the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield.
    • Morley Memorial College for Working Men and Women opens in South London.[21]
  • 29 October – British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.[4]
  • October/November – Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking, opened for worship, founded by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner as the first purpose-built mosque in Britain.[22]
  • 2 November – Wimbledon F.C. (as "Wimbledon Old Central Football Club") play their first match.[23]

Undated[]

  • Arthur Wharton signs for Rotherham Town F.C. for the 1889/90 season, becoming the world's first black professional football player.[24][25]
  • The little owl first breeds in England.[26]

Publications[]

Births[]

  • 17 January – Ralph H. Fowler, astronomer and physicist (died 1944)
  • 21 January – Edith Bratt, wife of J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1971)
  • 31 January – Frank Foster, cricketer (died 1958)
  • 5 February – Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (died 1962)
  • 19 February – Ernest Marsden, physicist (died 1970)
  • 22 February – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (died 1977)
  • 22 February – R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian (died 1943)
  • 24 March – Albert Hill, athlete (died 1969)
  • 8 April – Adrian Boult, conductor (died 1983)
  • 14 April – Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (died 1975)
  • 16 April – Charlie Chaplin, comic actor and film director (died 1977)
  • 20 April – Harold Bache, cricketer (died 1916)
  • 24 April – Stafford Cripps, politician (died 1952)
  • 11 May – Paul Nash, painter (died 1946)
  • 27 May – Hugh Franklin, activist for women's suffrage (died 1962)
  • 1 June – Charles Kay Ogden, linguist, philosopher and writer (died 1957)
  • 23 June – Verena Holmes, mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1964)
  • 22 July – James Whale, horror film director (died 1957 in Hollywood)
  • 21 August – Richard O'Connor, General in World War II (died 1981)
  • 25 September
    • G. D. H. Cole, political and economic theorist, historian and detective fiction writer (died 1959)
    • C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, writer and translator (died 1930)
  • 27 October – Enid Bagnold, author and playwright (died 1981)
  • 30 November – Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)

Deaths[]

  • 5 February – James Smetham, painter (born 1821)
  • 11 March – Samuel Carter Hall, journalist (born 1800)
  • 26 March
    • Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, soldier, politician and colonial administrator (born 1823)
    • Elizabeth Ayton Godwin, hymn writer and religious poet (born 1817)
  • 6 April – Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Latin scholar and promoter of women's higher education (born 1804)
  • 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (born 1844)
  • 10 September – Amy Levy, feminist poet and novelist, suicide (born 1861)
  • 23 September
    • Wilkie Collins, novelist (born 1824)
    • Eliza Cook, Chartist poet (born 1818)
  • 11 October – James Prescott Joule, physicist (born 1818)
  • 18 November – William Allingham, poet and diarist (born 1824)
  • 29 November – Martin Farquhar Tupper, writer and poet (born 1810)
  • 12 December
    • Edward Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), writer (born 1827)
    • Robert Browning, poet (born 1812)
  • 23 December – Constance Naden, poet and philosopher (born 1858)
  • 30 December – Sir Henry Yule, Scottish orientalist (born 1820)

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Calling all history buffs: Dundee is actually the oldest city in Scotland - here's why". SeeDundee. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  3. ^ Milne, Scott. "Dundee is Scotland's oldest city — and here's why". The Courier. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 315–316. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  5. ^ "Milestones". RSPB. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  6. ^ 14 PD 64.
  7. ^ "1889.html". Fa-cupfinals.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  8. ^ "Preston North End 1888–1889 Home". statto.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  9. ^ Edwards, John (1955). "County". Chambers's Encyclopedia. London: Newnes. pp. 189–191.
  10. ^ "The County Council Elections". The Times. No. 32595. London. 14 January 1889. p. 10.
  11. ^ "The County Councils". The Times. No. 32601. 21 January 1889. p. 10.
  12. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  13. ^ "The Scottish National Portrait Gallery". The Times. No. 32752. 16 July 1889. p. 5.
  14. ^ "The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery". History & Architecture. National Galleries of Scotland. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012.
  15. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  16. ^ "The Great Dock Strike". PortCities project. Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  17. ^ Batty, David (18 May 2005). "Timeline: a history of child protection". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  18. ^ Gillard, Derek (2018). "Education in England: a history". HDA. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  19. ^ "The History of Molineux 1889–1989". Thewolvessite.co.uk. 2 July 1986. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  20. ^ "Sheffield United". The Beautiful History. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  21. ^ "The Royal Victoria Hall". South London Press. 7 September 1889. p. 3.
  22. ^ Ahmad, Nasir. "Dr. Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899)". Woking Muslim Mission, England, 1913–1968. Wembley: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha‘at Islam Lahore (U.K.). Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  23. ^ "The Historical Don". Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  24. ^ "Arthur Wharton". 100 Great Black Britons. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  25. ^ Vasili, Phil (1998). The First Black Footballer, Arthur Wharton, 1865-1930. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-4903-1.
  26. ^ Niemann, Derek (8 July 2011). "Little owl". Discover Wildlife. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.

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