1863 in the United Kingdom
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1863 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1863 English cricket season

Events from the year 1863 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 8 January - Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
• 10 January - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).¹
• 7 February - HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.
• 10 March - Marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.²
• 15 August–17 August - Bombardment of Kagoshima: Royal Navy bombards the town of Kagoshima in Japan in retribution after the Namamugi Incident of 1862.
• 26 October - The Football Association founded.¹
• 19 December - Linoleum patented.¹

Undated

• The government rejects the Greek Assembly's choice of Prince Alfred as the successor to the deposed Otto of Greece.¹
• Richard Owen publishes the first description of a fossilised bird, Archaeopteryx.¹
• A scarlet fever epidemic causes over 30,000 deaths.¹

Publications

• Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water Babies.³
• Henry Walter Bates's work The Naturalist on the River Amazons.¹
• Charles Lyell's work Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, endorsing the views of Charles Darwin.¹

Births

• 17 January - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (died 1945)
• 11 March - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (died 1915)
• 27 March - Henry Royce, automobile pioneer (died 1933)
• 15 May - Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (died 1936)
• 29 May - Arthur Mold, cricketer (died 1921)
• 13 June - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, fashion designer (died 1942)
• 6 July - Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (died 1943)
• 21 July - C. Aubrey Smith, actor (died 1948)
• 13 September - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935)
• 16 October - Austen Chamberlain, statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1937)

Deaths

• 9 March - John Gully, sportsman and politician (born 1783)
• 24 August - Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, soldier (born 1792)
• 24 December - William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (born 1811)

References

See also