1870 in the United Kingdom

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1870 English cricket season

Events from the year 1870 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)

Events

28 January — General Post Office takes over business of private telegraph companies.^[1]
5 March — First ever (unofficial) international football match, England v Scotland, takes place under the approval of the Football Association at The Oval, London.
10 May — Jem Mace wins the boxing championship of the world, defeating fellow Englishman Tom Allen at Kenner, near New Orleans.^[2]
19 May — The Home Government Association is established in Ireland by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union 1800.^[3]
late Spring — Army Enlistment (Short Service) Act allows reduction in length of enlistment to the British Army as part of the Cardwell Reforms.^[4]
2 June — Competitive examination for entry to the British civil service introduced.^[5]
23 June — Keble College, Oxford, opens, the first new college of the University of Oxford in more than a century.
2 August — Official opening of the Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London, the world's first underground passenger "tube" railway.^[6] Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead.^[7]
4 August — British Red Cross established as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War by Lord Wantage.^[6]
9 August
- Elementary Education Act 1870 drafted by William Edward Forster MP encourages elementary education by creating a system of School boards in England and Wales.^[3]^[6] Women are eligible to stand and vote for local school boards where created.
- Married Women's Property Act confirms that wives may own property of their own.^[5]
1 October — Postcards and halfpenny postage stamps introduced by the Post Office.^[6]

Publications

1 January — The Northern Echo newspaper launched in Darlington.
April–September — Serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, only half complete due to his death on 9 June.
Edward Jenkins' satire Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes.
William Robinson's gardening book The Wild Garden.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems,^[8] exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave.

Births

12 February — Marie Lloyd, music-hall singer (died 1922)
4 March — Thomas Sturge Moore, poet, author and artist (died 1944)
17 March — Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist (died 1951)
9 May — Harry Vardon, golfer (died 1937)
11 August — Tom Richardson, cricketer (died 1912)
18 December — Saki, writer (died 1916)
Doncaster, racehorse (died 1892)

Deaths

6 May — James Young Simpson, physician and researcher (born 1811)
9 June — Charles Dickens, novelist (born 1812)
9 December — Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (born 1799)

References

↑ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 15.
↑ Mace, Ralph. "Jem Mace, Champion of the World". Retrieved 2010-08-09.
1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 422–423. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Ensor, R.C.K. (1936). 14, "England 1870–1914". The Oxford History of England. Oxford University Press. p. 16.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 291–292. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
1 2 3 4 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Smith, Denis (2001). Civil Engineering Heritage: London and the Thames Valley. Thomas Telford. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-7277-2876-8.
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

Years in the United Kingdom

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1870 in Europe

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