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Events from the year 1863 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

8 January - Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield.
10 January - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).^[1]
7 February - HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.
10 March - Marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.^[2]
15 August–17 August - Bombardment of Kagoshima: Royal Navy bombards the town of Kagoshima in Japan in retribution after the Namamugi Incident of 1862.
26 October - The Football Association founded.^[1]
19 December - Linoleum patented.^[1]

The government rejects the Greek Assembly's choice of Prince Alfred as the successor to the deposed Otto of Greece.^[1]
Richard Owen publishes the first description of a fossilised bird, Archaeopteryx.^[1]
A scarlet fever epidemic causes over 30,000 deaths.^[1]
Beginning of Second Anglo-Ashanti war.

17 January - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (died 1945)
11 March - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (died 1915)
27 March - Henry Royce, automobile pioneer (died 1933)
15 May - Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (died 1936)
29 May - Arthur Mold, cricketer (died 1921)
13 June - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, fashion designer (died 1942)
6 July - Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (died 1943)
21 July - C. Aubrey Smith, actor (died 1948)
13 September - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935)
16 October - Austen Chamberlain, statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1937)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "1863." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.