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Events from the year 1895 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Liberal (until 22 June), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

[edit] Events

12 January - The National Trust is founded in Britain by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
25 January - First international hockey match: Wales v. Ireland.^[1]
11 February - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This UK Weather Record was equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.
14 February - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).^[2]
6 April - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
2 May - British South Africa Company's territory south of the Zambesi renamed 'Rhodesia'.^[1]
25 May - Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve two years in a Reading prison.
21 June - Roseberry resigns after defeat in the House of Commons over the supply of cordite to the army. Salisbury takes over as Prime Minister.^[1]
15 July - Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
August - General election won by the Conservative Party under Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
10 August - First Henry Wood Promenade Concert held, at Queen's Hall, London.^[2]
29 August - The Northern Rugby Football Union is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield. This is now the governing body for the sport of Rugby League, known as the Rugby Football League.
October - Rudyard Kipling publishes the story "Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever" in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine.
11 September - the FA Cup is stolen from a shop window in Birmingham.^[2]
4 October - English golfer Horace Rawlins, 19, wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament.^[2]
15 October - First motor show in Britain held at Tunbridge Wells.^[1]
29 December - The Jameson Raid; invasion of Transvaal.^[1]

[edit] Ongoing

Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1894–1896)

[edit] Publications

Hilaire Belloc's poetry anthology Verses and Sonnets.
Joseph Conrad's novel Almayer's Folly.
Serialisation of Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure.
H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine.

[edit] Births

29 April - Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)
30 May - Maurice Tate, cricketer (died 1956)
24 July - Robert Graves, writer (died 1985)
7 September - Brian Horrocks, general (died 1985)
31 October - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (died 1970)
1 December - Henry Williamson, author (died 1977)
2 December - Harriet Cohen, pianist (died 1967)
14 December - King George VI of the United Kingdom (died 1952)
30 December - L. P. Hartley, writer (died 1972)

[edit] Deaths

24 January - Lord Randolph Churchill, statesman (born 1849)
10 March - Charles Frederick Worth, fashion designer (born 1825)
15 May - Joseph Whitaker, publisher (born 1820)
29 June - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (born 1825)

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 322–323. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.

[edit] See also

[CBH-0] Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 322–323. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[Pocket_On_This_Day-1] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.

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