1862 in the United Kingdom

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Sport

1862 English cricket season

Events of the year 1862 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria
• Prime Minister — The Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)

Events

• 6 January — French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
• 16 January — Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 miners die following collapse of machinery at the Hartley Colliery in Northumberland.^[1]
• 15 March — Riots in Stalybridge, Lancashire, over cotton recession.^[2]
• 21 March — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.^[3]
• May — The 10.00 a.m. "Special Scotch Express", predecessor of the Flying Scotsman express train, first departs from London King's Cross for Edinburgh over the East Coast Main Line.
• 1 May — 1862 International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in South Kensington.^[2]
• 16 May — Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.^[4]
• 24 May — New Westminster Bridge, designed by Thomas Page, is opened in London.^[5]
• 5 June — "Geordie" Ridley first sings "Blaydon Races" at Balmbra's Music Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• 30 June — 'Revised Code', introducing a system of 'payment by results' for elementary schools in England and Wales, begins to come into effect.^[6][7]
• 1 July — Marriage of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
• 4 July — Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Folly Bridge, Oxford, to Godstow on which he tells the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[8]
• 29 July — Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama is launched clandestinely at Birkenhead by John Laird Sons and Company.^[9]
• 31 August — Last mail coach runs from Carlisle to Hawick, Scotland.^[10]
• 14 September — A British national, Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan by samurai in the Namamugi Incident. Three companions escape, though two are seriously injured.
• 30 September — Clifton College opens as a public school near Bristol.^[11]
• 11 October — Jessie M'Lachlan, having been found guilty in the Sandyford murder case in Glasgow, is to be hanged, but has her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
• 20 October — Charles Thomas Longley succeeds as Archbishop of Canterbury, being translated from York.^[12]
• November — Criminal law amended to make robbery with violence punishable by flogging.^[2]
• c. November — Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the Thames Embankment in London.^[2][13]
• 28 Novemnber — Notts County F.C. is founded in Nottingham, making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest Association football playing professionally.
• Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) forms the first Anglican Benedictine community, initially at Claydon, Suffolk.

Publications

• M. E. Braddon's 'sensation novel' Lady Audley's Secret.
• George Eliot's novel Romola (serialisation).
• Herbert Spencer's book First Principles, the first volume of his System of Synthetic Philosophy.
• Anthony Trollope's novel Orley Farm completes publication.

Births

• 29 January — Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
• 1 April — Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions (d. 1957)
• 2 July — William Henry Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
• 5 August — Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
• 26 August — Herbert Booth, Salvationist (d. 1926)
• 29 September — Fred Russell, "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism" (d. 1957)
• 3 October — Johnny Briggs, cricketer (d. 1902)

Deaths

• 3 April — James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (b. 1800)
• 29 June — James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (b. 1799)
• 6 September — John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)
• 8 October — James Walker, civil engineer (b. 1781)
• 18 December — Lucas Barrett, naturalist and geologist (b. 1837)

References

1. Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Disaster 1862
2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
4. Osborn, P. G. (2008). A Concise Law Dictionary, for Students and Practitioners. Read Books. p. 124. ISBN 1-4437-2948-5.
5. "Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide". Retrieved 2011-09-01.
6. Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
7. "Leader". The Times (24364). London. 1862-09-30. p. 6.
8. Davies, Mark J. (2010). Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books. ISBN 978-1-904955-72-6.
9. "The Alabama". Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-26.
10. "C3 — Coaching". Carlisle Encyclopaedia. Carlisle History. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
11. "Opening Of Clifton College". The Times (24366). 1862-10-02. p. 7.
12. Garrard, J. R. (2004). "Longley, Charles Thomas (1794–1868)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2010-11-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
13. "The Thames Embankment". The Times (24414). 1862-11-27. p. 12.

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