1891 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1891 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative
[edit] Events
- 14 February - In the FA Cup Quarter Final, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An Indirect free kick is awarded, since the Penalty kick was proposed that year but not implemented. This event probably changed public opinion on the penalty kick, which was seen as 'an Irishman's motion' before. (See William McCrum.)
- 9 March–12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sink
- 18 March - official opening of the London-Paris telephone system.[1]
- 17 March - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
- 1 April - the London-Paris telephone system is opened to the general public.[1]
- 25 June - Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in the Strand Magazine for the first time.[1]
[edit] Undated
- New Scotland Yard becomes the HQ of London Metropolitan Police
- Abolition of fees for primary schooling.[2]
[edit] Publications
- George Gissing's novel New Grub Street.
- Serialisation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
- William Morris' novel News from Nowhere.
- Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Grey.
- Strand Magazine.
[edit] Births
- 9 February - Ronald Colman, English actor (died 1958)
- 11 February - J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (died 1965)
- 7 May - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (died 1988)
- 20 June - John A. Costello, second President of Ireland (died 1976)
- 30 June - Stanley Spencer, painter (died 1959)
- 20 October - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
[edit] Deaths
- 15 March - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (born 1819)
- 6 October
- William Henry Smith, politician and founder of W H Smith (born 1825)
- Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (born 1846)
- 15 October - Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English writer (born 1837)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 318-319. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
