1889 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1889 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

Events

* 12 February - The London County Council elects Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery as its first chairman.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 315-316|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 31 May - The Naval Defence Act 1889 dictates that the fleet strength of the Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.
* 12 June - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
* July - County Councils established in Scotland.
* 6 July - Several aristocrats are implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal after police raid a male brothel in London.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8]
* 3 August - Mahdist War: Egyptian and British victory at the Battle of Toski.
* 6 August - The Savoy Hotel in London opens.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 14 August to 15 September - London dockers strike over pay, which they eventually receive. [cite web|url=http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.77/The-Great-Dock-Strike-of-1889.html|title=The Great Dock Strike at the PortCities project|accessdate=2008-01-29]
* 29 October - British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.

Undated

* English football teams Sheffield United F.C. and Wimbledon F.C. formed.

Publications

* Lewis Carroll's novel "Sylvie and Bruno".
* Jerome K. Jerome's novel "Three Men in a Boat".
* T. H. Huxley's book "Agnosticism".
* Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "The Master of Ballantrae".
* Wisden Cricketer's Almanac publishes its first "Wisden Cricketers of the Year" (actually titled "Six Great Bowlers Of The Year"). The cricketers chosen are George Lohmann, Bobby Peel, Johnny Briggs, Charles Turner, John Ferris and Sammy Woods.

Births

* 21 January - Edith Tolkien, wife of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (died 1971)
* 31 January - Frank Foster, cricketer (died 1958)
* 5 February - Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (died 1962)
* 19 February - Ernest Marsden, physicist (died 1970)
* 22 February - Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (died 1977)
* 22 February - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian (died 1943)
* 24 March - Albert Hill, athlete (died 1969)
* 8 April - Adrian Boult, conductor (died 1983)
* 16 April - Charlie Chaplin, actor and film director (died 1977)
* 11 May - Paul Nash, artist (died 1946)
* 1 June - Charles Kay Ogden, linguist, philosopher and writer (died 1957)
* 21 August - Richard O'Connor, General in WWII (died 1981)
* 25 September - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, writer and translator (died 1930)
* 30 November - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)

Deaths

* 8 June - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (born 1844)
* 23 September - Wilkie Collins, novelist (born 1824)
* 11 October - James Prescott Joule, physicist (born 1818)
* 12 December - Robert Browning, poet (born 1812)

References

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