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Events from the year 1884 in the United Kingdom.

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4 January - The Fabian Society is founded in London.^[1]
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.^[1]
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.^[1]
13 October
- International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.^[1]
- Mahdist War: General Charles Gordon besieged in Khartoum.^[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.^[2]
13 December - Dudley and Stephens are told that the death penalties have been commuted to six months' imprisonment.

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)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 309-310. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.