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Events from the year 1889 in the United Kingdom.

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

12 February - The London County Council elects Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery as its first chairman.^[1]
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.^[1]
12 June - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
July - County Councils established in Scotland.^[1]
6 July - Several aristocrats are implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal after police raid a male brothel in London.^[2]
3 August - Mahdist War: Egyptian and British victory at the Battle of Toski.
6 August - The Savoy Hotel in London opens.^[3]
14 August to 15 September - London dockers strike over pay, which they eventually receive.^[4]
29 October - British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.^[1]

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)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 315–316. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ "The Great Dock Strike at the PortCities project". http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.77/The-Great-Dock-Strike-of-1889.html. Retrieved 2008-01-29.