1894 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1894
Events from the year 1894 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
15 February – 04:51 GMT , French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb but succeeds only in killing himself through its accidental explosion.[ 1]
1 March – Local Government Act (coming into effect December 1894–January 1895) creates a system of urban and rural districts with elected councils, with elected civil parish councils in rural areas, reforms the boards of guardians of poor law unions , and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.[ 2]
2 March – William Ewart Gladstone (at the age of 84) resigns as Prime Minister 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] [ 3]
16 April – Ardwick Association Football Club changes its name to Manchester City F.C.
21 April – debut of the George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man London .[ 3]
23 April (St. George's Day) – Howard Ruff founds the Royal Society of St George , to foster the love of England and to strengthen England and the Empire by spreading the knowledge of English history, traditions and ideals.
14 May – Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool , Lancashire , as a visitor attraction.
21 May – the Manchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city of Manchester to the Irish Sea .[ 3]
6 June – Ladas becomes the first horse to win the Epsom Derby for owner Lord Rosebery, the Prime Minister.
23 June – a firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery , Cilfynydd , Glamorgan , kills 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground.[ 4] [ 5]
30 June – Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.[ 3]
September – British Association for the Advancement of Science inaugurates an Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom.[ 6]
28 September – Michael Marks forms the partnership of Marks & Spencer with Thomas Spencer ,[ 7] Manchester .[ 8]
13 October – Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs meet in the first Merseyside derby .[ 3]
17–18 October – First Kinetoscope parlour in the UK opens in London.[ 9]
December – Frederick Bremer , a plumber and gasfitter from Walthamstow , runs the first British four-wheeled petrol-engined motor car (self-built) on the public highway.[ 10] [ 11]
Undated
Publications
Births
18 January – Ethel Haythornthwaite , born Ward, environmental campaigner (died 1986)
30 January – Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley , socialite and aristocrat (died 1989)
10 February – Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
7 March – Frank Halford , aeronautical engineer (died 1955)
5 April – Chesney Allen , entertainer and singer (died 1982)
25 April – Billy Smart Sr. , circus owner (died 1966)
2 May – Joseph Henry Woodger , theoretical biologist (died 1981)
4 May - Mary Louisa Avery , mother, grandmother and great grandmother (died 1988)
9 May – Benjamin Graham , born Grossbaum, economist in the United States (died 1976 in France)
1 June – Percival Mackey , pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1950)
6 June – Violet Trefusis , writer and socialite (died 1972)
23 June – King Edward VIII , later Duke of Windsor (died 1972 in France)
26 July – Aldous Huxley , novelist (died 1963)
28 July – Freda Dudley Ward , born Winifred Birkin, socialite (died 1983)
24 August – Elisha Scott , Northern Irish footballer (died 1959)
13 September – J. B. Priestley , novelist and playwright (died 1984)
24 September – Tommy Armour , golfer (died 1968)
1 October – Beatrice Green , labour activist (died 1927)
21 November – Max Miller , born Thomas Sargent, stand-up comedian (died 1963)
24 November – Herbert Sutcliffe , cricketer (died 1978)
7 December – Freddie Adkins , cartoonist (died c. 1986)
10 December – William Sydney Marchant , colonial official (died 1953)
25 December – Xenia Field , councillor, horticulturalist and author (born in India; died 1998)
Deaths
20 January – Robert Halpin , mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
27 January – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins , sculptor and natural history artist (born 1807)
8 February – R. M. Ballantyne , Scottish author of juvenile fiction (born 1825) (dies in Rome )
11 February – Margaret Henley , inspiration for the name Wendy in Peter Pan
15 February – Martial Bourdin , French anarchist (born 1868) (accidentally kills himself while attempting to blow up the Royal Observatory, Greenwich )
9 April – Arthur Hill Hassall , physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst (born 1817) (dies in Sanremo )
29 April – Augusta Theodosia Drane , religious writer and Catholic prioress (born 1823)
23 May – Brian Houghton Hodgson , civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
14 June – John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge , Lord Chief Justice (born 1820)
1 September – Boston Corbett , Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln 's assassin , John Wilkes Booth (born 1832 )
5 September – Augusta Webster , poet (born 1837)
20 October – James Anthony Froude , historian and religious controversialist (born 1818)
3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (born 1850) (dies in Samoa )
19 December – James Allen Harker , entomologist (born 1847)
24 December – Frances Buss , pioneer of women's education (born 1827)
29 December – Christina Rossetti , poet (born 1830)
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