- 1894 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1894 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -William Gladstone , Liberal (until2 March ),Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , LiberalEvents
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15 February - 04:51GMT , Frenchanarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy theRoyal Greenwich Observatory inLondon with a bomb. [cite web |title = Propaganda by Deed| url = http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.413 | accessdate = 2008-02-17]
*1 March -Local Government Act createsparish council s, and gives women the vote in local (but not national) elections.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 321-322|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*3 March -William Gladstone resigns over high Navy estimates.
*5 March -Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
*11 April - Britain establishes a Protectorate overUganda .
*12 April - The annual Budget establishes death duties.
*21 April - Debut of theGeorge Bernard Shaw play "Arms and the Man " inLondon .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*14 May -Blackpool Tower opened inBlackpool ,Lancashire .
*21 May - TheManchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city ofManchester to theIrish Sea .
*30 June -Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.
*2 August - Death duties introduced.
*28 September -Marks & Spencer starts life as a market stall inLeeds Kirkgate Market .
*13 October -Everton F.C. andLiverpool F.C. meet in the firstMerseyside derby .Undated
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Argon discovered byLord Rayleigh and SirWilliam Ramsay .
*Patrick Manson develops the thesis thatmalaria is spread bymosquito es.
* Alfred Harmsworth buys the London newspaper "Evening News".cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=448–449]Publications
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Arthur Conan Doyle 's anthology "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ".
*George du Maurier 's novel "Trilby".
*Anthony Hope 's novel "The Prisoner of Zenda ".
*Rudyard Kipling 's novel "The Jungle Book ".Births
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10 February -Harold Macmillan ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
*6 June -Violet Trefusis , writer and socialite (died 1972)
*23 June - KingEdward VIII of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
*26 July -Aldous Huxley , author (died 1963)
*13 September -J. B. Priestley , novelist and playwright (died 1984)
*24 September -Tommy Armour , golfer (died 1968)
*24 November -Herbert Sutcliffe , cricketer (died 1978)Deaths
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20 January -Robert Halpin , mariner and cable layer (born 1836)
*23 May -Brian Houghton Hodgson , civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
*3 December -Robert Louis Stevenson , author (born 1850)
*24 December -Frances Buss , pioneer of women's education (born 1827)
*29 December -Christina Rossetti , poet (born 1830)References
ee also
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