1880 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1880 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative (until 21 April), William Gladstone, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 8 March - The Conservative Party lose the general election to the Liberal Party.[1]
- 3 April - Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Pirates of Penzance first performed, at Opera Comique on the Strand, London.[2]
- 18 April - William Ewart Gladstone succeeds Benjamin Disraeli as Prime Minister. This is Gladstone's second term as Prime Minister.[1]
- 19 April - Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Ahmed Khel.
- 27 July - Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand.
- 2 August - Greenwich Mean Time adopted across Great Britain.[3]
- 1 September - Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Battle of Kandahar.
- 6 September to 8 September - First cricket Test match held in Britain.[2]
- October - Irish tenants ostracise landholder's agent Charles Boycott.[2]
- 17 November - The University of London awards the first degrees to women.[3]
- 16 December - The Boers declare independence in Transvaal triggering the First Boer War.
- 20 December - First Boer War: British forces defeated in the Action at Bronkhorstspruit.
[edit] Undated
- Work begins on Truro Cathedral.
[edit] Publications
- Thomas Hardy's novel The Trumpet-Major.
[edit] Births
- 28 January - Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (died 1970)
- 1 March - Giles Lytton Strachey, writer and biographer (died 1932)
- 25 May - Alf Common, footballer (died 1946)
- 21 June - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, economist (died 1941)
- 12 August - Radclyffe Hall, author and poet (died 1943)
- 16 September - Alfred Noyes, poet (died 1958)
- 22 September - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (died 1958)
- 23 September - John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
- 15 October - Marie Stopes, birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (died 1958)
- 2 November - John Foulds, classical music composer (died 1939)
- 10 November - Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)
- unknown date - Reginald John Farrer, botanist (died 1920)
[edit] Deaths
- 15 August - Adelaide Neilson, actress (born 1847)
- 5 October - William Lassell astronomer (born 1799)
- 22 December - George Eliot, writer (born 1819)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 433–434. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 304-305. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
