Events and Index

EVENTS 1860-1889

1860 - first "pleasure" pier built at Southport,Lancs
1860 - first Royal Navy Ironclad Battleships launched
1861 - first UK horse drawn tram service
1861 - Gatling gun invented
1861 - 1861 national census
1862 - National Working Men's Club and Institute Union created
1862 - source of the Nile discovered
1863 - formation of the Football Association
1863 - Metropolitan Line opens, first underground train service
1865 - Salvation Army founded
1866 - cholera sweeps London
1867 - Fenian uprising in Ireland
1867 - invention of the typewriter
1867 - invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel
1868 - Trades Union Congress (TUC) formed
1868 - last public hanging in Britain
1868 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
1869 - construction of the Periodic Table of Elements
1870 - Elementary Education Act set up state elementary schools
1870 - electric incandescent lamp invented
1871 - Trade Union Act legalised trade unions
1871 - Bank Holidays Act establishes Bank Holidays
1871 - 1871 national census
1872 - Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1872 - "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 - death of David Livingstone
1873 - Irish Republican Brotherhood formed
1876 - invention of the telephone
1877 - phonograph invented
1877 - invention of reinforced concrete
1881 - Revised Version of the Bible published
1881 - opening of the British Museum
1881 - 1881 national census
1882 - tuberculosis bacteria isolated
1883 - cholera bacteria isolated
1883 - Krakatoa erupts
1884 - fountain pen invented
1885 - vaccine against rabies discovered
1885 - General Gordon killed at Khartoum
1887 - first English submarine tested
1887 - Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
1888 - invention of the pneumatic tyre
1888 - invention of hand-held camera
1888 - Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 - Invention of the bolt-action rifle
1889 - Completion of the Forth Bridge