1864 in the United Kingdom

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1864 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1864 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Unknown dates 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 11 January - Charing Cross railway station in London opens. ^[1]
• 11 March - Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.

[edit] Unknown dates

• James Clerk Maxwell discovers microwaves.
• John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the elements.
• John Wisden publishes first edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. It goes on to become the major annual cricket publication.

[edit] Births

• 8 January - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (d. 1892)
• 20 February - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (d. 1925)
• 22 April - Phil May, caricaturist (d. 1903)
• 14 September - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
• 31 October - Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1945)
• 26 November - Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)

[edit] Deaths

• 29 January - Lucy Aikin, writer (b. 1781)
• 15 September - John Hanning Speke, explorer (b. 1827)
• 8 December - George Boole, mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)

[edit] References