1884 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1884 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

* 4 January - The Fabian Society is founded in London.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 18 January - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
* 26 January–29 March - The first British Home Championship is held between the football teams of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
* 1 February - First fasicle of the "Oxford English Dictionary" is published.
* 15 February - Emma Keyse is murdered and John 'Babbacombe' Lee is suspected
* 22 April - Colchester earthquake: four die in the UK's most destructive earthquake.
* 8 July - the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) founded in London.
* 13 October
** International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.
** Mahdist War: General Charles Gordon besieged in Khartoum.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 309-310|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 18 October - University of Wales, Bangor founded.
* 2 November - the Home Office Baby is delivered to the Home Office.
* 4 December - Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens are convicted of murder in the case of "R v. Dudley and Stephens"
* 9 December - Dudley and Stephens receive the mandatory death penalty with a recommendation for clemency.
* 10 December - Third Reform Act gives farm workers the vote, subject to the same restrictions as already applied elsewhere.
* 13 December - Dudley and Stephens are told that the death penalties have been commuted to six months' imprisonment.

Publications

* First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Births

* 18 January - Arthur Ransome, author and journalist (died 1967)
* 13 March - Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (died 1941)
* 10 May - Olga Petrova, English-born actress (died 1977)
* 19 December - Stanley Unwin, publisher (died 1968)

Deaths

* 1 March - Isaac Todhunter, mathematician (born 1820)
* 28 March - Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, member of the royal family (born 1853)
* 5 April - John Wisden, cricketer and creator of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (born 1826)
* 10 September - George Bentham, botanist (born 1800)
* 6 November - Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (born 1833)

References

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