1890 in the United Kingdom

1890 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1890 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

* 4 January - First edition of the "Daily Graphic", the first British 'picture paper'.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 317-318|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 4 March - The longest bridge in Britain, the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) in Scotland, is opened.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 12 May - The first official County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets.
* 1 July - Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany; Britain cedes Heligoland to Germany in return for Pemba and Zanzibar.
* 21 July - Battersea Bridge over the River Thames opens in London.
* 8 September - the future King Edward VII becomes involved in the Royal Baccarat Scandal.
* September - Southampton Dock Strike of 1890.
* 22 October - Colony of Western Australia granted self-governing status.
* November - Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as the New Scotland Yard.
* 4 November - London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opens. It runs a distance of convert|5.1|km|mi|abbr=on|lk=on|1 between the City of London and Stockwell.
* 18 December - British East Africa Company takes control of Uganda..

Undated

* Prosecution of Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln for using ritualistic practices ends.
* Construction of the first electrical power station, at Deptford.

Publications

* Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of the Four".
* Volume 1 of James George Frazer's study in religion, "The Golden Bough".

Births

* 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist (died 1956)
* 17 February - Ronald Fisher, biologist (died 1962)
* 25 February - Dame Myra Hess, pianist (died 1965)
* 31 March - William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
* 16 April - Fred Root, cricketer (died 1954)
* 23 May - Herbert Marshall, actor (died 1966)
* 16 June - Stan Laurel, actor (died 1965)
* 15 September - Agatha Christie, writer (died 1976)
* 24 September - A. P. Herbert, politician and writer (died 1971)
* 17 October - Roy Kilner, cricketer (died 1928)
* 15 November - Richmal Crompton, writer (died 1969)
* 5 December - David Bomberg, painter (died 1957)
* 30 December - Lanoe Hawker, fighter pilot (died 1916)

Deaths

* 11 April - Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man), oddity (born 1862)
* 20 July - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector (born 1818)
* 11 August - John Henry Newman, Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1801)
* 4 October - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (born 1829)
* 20 October - Richard Francis Burton, explorer (born 1821)

References

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