1869 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1869 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal

[edit] Events

• 6 March - the first international cycle race is held at Crystal Palace, London. ^[1]
• 16 October - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, is founded.
• 4 November - The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published.
• 23 November - In Dumbarton, Scotland the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched (it was one of the last clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).

[edit] Undated

• Basutoland becomes a British protectorate.

[edit] Births

• 14 February - Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 3 March - Henry Wood, conductor (d. 1944)
• 14 March - Algernon Blackwood, writer (d. 1951)
• 18 March - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (d. 1940)
• 10 August - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar (d. 1943)
• 20 November - Herbert Tudor Buckland, seminal Arts and crafts architect (d. 1951)

[edit] Deaths

• 12 September - Peter Roget, lexicographer (b. 1779)
• 23 October - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (b. 1799)

[edit] References