1860 in the United Kingdom
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1860 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862

Sport

1860 English cricket season

Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

• March - Food and Drugs Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.^[1]
• 17 March - Taranaki War between Maoris and British colonists in New Zealand begins.^[1]
• April - The last major bare-knuckle boxing match in England ends in a draw.^[1]
• May - Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to be photographed. The photographer was John Jabez Edwin Mayall.^[2]
• June - First golf championship, at Prestwich. Sometimes regarded as the first Open, although it was not truly open until the following year.^[1]
• 22 August - the British navy assist the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
• 30 August - the first street trams in Britain are introduced in Birkenhead.^[3]
• October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
• 5 October - Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.
• 17 October - the first professional golf tournament, The Open Championship, held in Prestwick in Scotland.^[3]
• 18 October
  • Second Opium War: Lord Elgin ordered his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burned to the ground.
  • The first Convention of Peking formally ended the Second Opium War.
• 1 December - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in the magazine All the Year Round.
• 29 December - The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the HMS Warrior is launched.^[3]

Publications

• Serialisation of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations.
• George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss.

Births

• 2 May - William Bayliss, physiologist (died 1924)
• 9 May - J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937)
• 22 July - Frederick Rolfe, writer and artist (died 1913)
• 3 August - W.K. Dickson, inventor (died 1935)
• 7 August - Alan Leo, astrologer (died 1917)
• Frederick George Jackson, Arctic explorer (died 1938)
• Lancelot Speed, illustrator (died 1931)

Deaths

• 27 January - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer (born 1773)
• 25 March - James Braid, surgeon (born 1795)
• 12 May - Sir Charles Barry, architect (born 1795)
• 16 May - Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (born 1792)
• 31 October - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral (born 1775)
• 14 December - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)

References

See also