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American naturalist and Boy Scout pioneer Ernest Thompson Seton born in northern England |
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An explosion of sulphur gas kills seven in a coal mine in central England |
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At Epsom in England, the 100-1 colt "Hermit" wins the 88th running of the Derby. |
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At Epsom in southern England, Macaroni wins the eighty-fourth running of the Derby |
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At Epsom in southern England, the French horse "Gladiateur" wins the eighty-sixth running of the Derby |
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Boxer John C. Heenan, "the Benicia Boy," and British champion Tom Sayers fight for a "world championship" |
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British clergyman, poet, and founder of the Oxford Movement John Keble dies in southwest England. |
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British medical researcher Thomas Addison commits suicide at his home in Brighton |
Science/Technology |
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British ship bound for Australia with 250 souls aboard sinks in the Bay of Biscay and all but 19 are lost |
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Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the west of England is officially opened |
Science/Technology |
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Charles Darwin, busy in the preparation of his great work on the origin of species, celebrates his fiftieth birthday |
Science/Technology |
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Courteous Spanish diplomat commits suicide in Blenheim Park in England |
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Eight men die in a mining disaster in south-west England. |
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Future British Nobel Prize for Literature laureate John Galsworthy is born in southern England. |
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Future British prime minister Stanley Baldwin is born in central England. |
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Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives in England for a month long visit |
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Great Britain abolishes the Navigation Acts |
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Gretna Green cross-border marriages between England and Scotland become more difficult |
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Havelock Ellis, pioneer sexologist, is born in England |
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Huge gale blowing across southern England kills dozens and destroys the spire of Chichester Cathedral |
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In a unique accident near London, three English freight trains collide inside a tunnel and burn. |
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In central England, another mining accident kills four miners and two pit boys |
Crime/Disasters |
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In central England, the crash of an excursion train with eight hundred passengers kills ten people |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Connecticut, the new Travellers' Insurance Company sells the country's first travel insurance policy |
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In England, a serious railway collision kills five people returning from the famous race meeting at Ascot |
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In England, Charles Dodgson gives Alice Liddell a manuscript entitled "Alice's Adventures Underground." |
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In England, fire damages Blenheim Palace and destroys a priceless Rubens masterpiece |
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In England, George Eliot publishes her new novel |
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In England, Jem Mace defeats Sam Hurst over eight rounds to win the British bare-knuckle championship |
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In England, Robert Fitzroy, innovative scientist and Charles Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" captain dies by suicide |
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In England, the day after a mining disaster killed hundreds, 85 more die in an explosion at another pit. |
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In England, the Edinburgh night mail train collides with a goods train and ten men are killed |
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In England, the famous Rugby School celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of its founding. |
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In England, the horse Blair Athol wins the eighty-fifth running of the Derby |
Education/Culture |
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In England, the Marquis of Hastings is fined for organizing cock-fighting at his country seat |
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In England, the training of soldiers in loading hand-grenades ends in a fatal explosion |
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In Ireland, George Boole, British mathematician and founder of "Boolean Algebra," dies at his home in Cork |
Science/Technology |
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In New York Harbor, the first Great Ocean Yacht Race across the Atlantic begins. |
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In northern England, a deadly train wreck kills five and injures many more. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In northern England, a disastrous fire kills nine school-children in their classroom. |
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In northern England, a mining disaster kills thirty-seven coal miners. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In northern England, a railway collision touches off four tons of gunpowder with fatal results. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In northern England, British law hangs the last man in its history for the crime of attempted murder |
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In northern England, eleven killed and scores injured in a railway accident |
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In northern England, textile manufacturers honor General "Stonewall" Jackson and mourn his death |
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In south-east England, a train crash kills ten people but passenger Charles Dickens narrowly survives |
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In southern England, a late night railroad crash kills three and injures many more. |
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In southern England, a small farming village is almost completely destroyed in an afternoon fire |
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In southern England, the Royal Yacht Club fetes the three Great Atlantic Yacht Race participants. |
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In southern England, two passenger trains collide in a railway tunnel, killing twenty-four and injuring hundreds |
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In southern England, two-time British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston dies, aged 80. |
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In the English city of Birmingham, Catholic rioters protest an anti-Catholic meeting |
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John C. Heenan, "the Benicia Boy," departs for England to fight British champion Tom Sayers |
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Juliette Low born in Savannah, Georgia |
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Mining disaster in England claims the lives of twenty-one men and boys |
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Mining disaster in northern England kills ten coal miners |
Crime/Disasters |
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New steamship bound for Canada with British government supplies sinks in a storm in mid-Atlantic |
Crime/Disasters |
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North of London, a coal train and cattle train collide resulting in death and serious injuries |
Crime/Disasters |
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Off the British coast, the Royal Navy's new ocean going iron warship breaks records at her speed trials |
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On the English coast, Sir William Armstrong's latest heavy cannon undergoes successfully tests |
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Powerful gales on the English coast cause heavy losses in ships and lives |
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Prince of Wales begins his undergraduate career at Oxford University |
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Queen Victoria and President Buchanan exchange telegraph messages over the new Atlantic Cable. |
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Scientists clash at Oxford University in the first debates on Charles Darwin's theories of evolution |
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Severe winter gales pound the coasts of the British Isles for three days |
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Ship transporting livestock explodes off the eastern coast of England and thirteen men die |
Crime/Disasters |
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Tennyson's newly published Idylls of the King selling strongly in England |
Education/Culture |
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The Duchess of Kent, mother of the reigning Queen Victoria, dies at her home near Windsor |
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The first Great Ocean Yacht Race across the Atlantic ends at the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. |
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The newly purchased Confederate ship "Rappahannock" slips out of its English Channel port at midnight |
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The newly-wed Prince and Princess of Wales dedicate the new building of the British Orphan's Asylum |
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The Prince of Wales prepares to sail on his tour of Canada and the United States |
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The Prince of Wales sails from Plymouth Sound for his tour of Canada and the United States |
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William Wordsworth's private library of three thousand volumes sold at auction in England |
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