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Events from the year 1865 in the United Kingdom.

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Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal (until 18 October), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal

28 May - The Mimosa sets sail, carrying Welsh emigrants to Patagonia.
25 June - James Hudson Taylor founds the China Inland Mission at Brighton.
July - General election won by the Liberal Party led by Lord Palmerston.^[1]
2 July - The Christian Mission, later renamed the Salvation Army, is founded in Whitechapel, London by William and Catherine Booth.^[2]^[3]
4 July - Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[3]
5 July - First speed limit is introduced in Britain by the Locomotive Act — 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country.^[2]
14 July - A party led by Edward Whymper makes the first ascent of the Matterhorn.^[3]
23 July - the SS Great Eastern departs on a voyage to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable.^[3]
28 September - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson graduates as Britain's first woman doctor.^[2]
9 October to 20 October - Unsuccessful uprising against British rule in Morant Bay, Jamaica; 400 rebels executed.^[4]
29 October - Lord John Russell becomes Prime Minister following the death of Lord Palmerston on 18 October.^[3]
11 November - Duar War with Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.^[3]
16 December - Edward John Eyre, governor of Jamaica, dismissed and censured for his excessive actions during the suppression of the recent rebellion.^[4]

9 April - Laurence Hope, poet (died 1904)
2 June - George Lohmann, cricketer (died 1901)
3 June - King George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)
15 July - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (died 1922)
12 October - Arthur Harden, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
20 October - Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet, judge (died 1955)
27 October - Tinsley Lindley, footballer (died 1940)
4 December - Edith Cavell, nurse (died 1915)
30 December - Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

6 February - Isabella Beeton, cook and expert on household management (born 1836)
11 March - Robert Hermann Schomburgk, explorer (b. 1804, Freiburg)
8 June - Joseph Paxton, gardener and architect (born 1803)
25 July - James Barry, military surgeon (born 1795)
12 August - William Jackson Hooker, botanist (born 1785)
9 September - William Henry Smyth, astronomer and admiral (born 1788)
18 October - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (born 1784)
1 November - John Lindley, botanist (born 1799)
8 November - Thomas Sayers, boxer (born 1826)
12 November - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist and biographer (born 1810)

^ Time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain Channel 4
^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "1865." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 286. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Francis Galton, "Hereditary talent and character", Macmillan's Magazine 12 (1865): 157-166 and 318-327