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1887 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year1887 in theUnited Kingdom. This year was theGolden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Incumbents

Events

12 January –Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, while waiting to discuss his resignation from the office ofSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dies at10 Downing Street.^[1]
20 January – Emigrant shipKapunda sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors.^[2]
18 February –National Colliery disaster at Cwtch in theRhondda: an undergroundexplosion kills thirty miners.^[3]
7 March–18 April –The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discreditCharles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882Phoenix Park Murders.^[4]
28 March –Irish Crimes Act suspends trial by jury in Ireland.^[5]
31 March –St. John Ambulance Brigade formed.
3 May –Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, is opened byPrincess Alexandra.
9 May –Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens inLondon.
11 May – First female victim of theThames Torso Murders found.^[6]
28 May –Udston mining disaster inHamilton, South Lanarkshire,Scotland: 73coal miners die in afiredamp explosion at Udston Colliery.^[7]
17 June –Hammersmith Bridge opens in London.^[8]
20 June –Jubilee coinage first issued, including the only issue of adouble florin.
20–21 June –Queen Victoria and the country celebrate aGolden Jubilee, the 50th year of her reign.^[9]
21 June –Jubilee Plot:Clan na Gael supporters land in Britain from the United States to commit terrorist offences.
22 June –Zululand becomes a British colony.^[5]
26 July —Blackpool F.C. founded.
5 September –Theatre Royal, Exeter burns down, and 186 people die.
1 October –British Empire takes overBalochistan.
6 October – theHōvis process for manufacture of breadmaking flour ispatented.
6 November – theAssociation football clubCeltic F.C. is formed inGlasgow byIrish Marist Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, thePoor Children's Dinner Table.^[10]^[11]
11 November – construction of theManchester Ship Canal begins.^[8]
13 November –Bloody Sunday: Police inLondon clash with radical andIrish nationalist protesters.^[8]
17 December – English adventurerThomas Stevens concludes the firstcircumnavigation bybicycle inYokohama, having set out on hispenny-farthing fromSan Francisco in 1884.
25 December –Glenfiddich single maltScotch whisky first distilled.

Undated

TheHospitals Association establishes the first (non-statutory and voluntary) register ofnurses in the UK.
SirJohn Everett Millais' paintingBubbles is acquired for advertising purposes byPears soap.

Publications

Arthur Conan Doyle's firstSherlock Holmes novelA Study in Scarlet (inBeeton's Christmas Annual, November).
H. Rider Haggard's novelsShe andAllan Quatermain.
Thomas Hardy's novelThe Woodlanders.

Births

10 February –E. V. Rieu, classicist and poet (died 1972)
5 March –Herbert Farjeon, man of the theatre (died 1945)
9 March –Phil Mead, cricketer (died 1958)
1 May –Alan Cunningham, World War II general (died 1983)
5 May –Geoffrey Fisher,Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1972)
24 May –Mick Mannock, World War I flying ace (killed in action 1918)
4 June –Ray Strachey, born Rachel Costelloe, feminist campaigner (died 1940)
21 June –Hastings Ismay, army officer (died 1965)
22 June –Julian Huxley, biologist (died 1975)
29 July –William Graham, Scottish politician (died 1932)
3 August –Rupert Brooke, war poet (died 1915)
16 August –Hugh Dalton, politician (died 1962)
22 August –Walter Citrine, trade unionist (died 1983)
31 August –William McMillan, sculptor (died 1977)
7 September –Edith Sitwell, poet (died 1964)
26 September –Edwin Keppel Bennett, writer (died 1958)
26 September –Barnes Wallis, scientist, engineer and inventor (died 1979)
11 October –Henry Montgomery Campbell,Bishop of London (died 1970)
1 November –L. S. Lowry, painter (died 1976)
11 November –Maurice Elvey, born William Folkard, film director (died 1967)
17 November –Bernard Montgomery, World War II commander (died 1976)
23 November –Boris Karloff, born William Pratt, film actor (died 1969)
Isabel Emslie Hutton, Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (died 1960)

Deaths

12 January –Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, politician (born 1818)
22 January –Sir Joseph Whitworth, mechanical engineer (born 1803)
10 February –Mrs Henry Wood, novelist (born 1814)
13 February –Philip Bourke Marston, poet (born 1850)
4 March –Mrs W. H. Foley, actor, singer, director and manager (born 1821)
23 April –John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet (born 1832)
7 May –Samuel Cousins, engraver (born 1801)
8 May –Thomas Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer and meteorologist (born 1818)
21 May – SirHorace Jones, architect (born 1819)
10 June –Richard Lindon, inventor (born 1816)
8 July –John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (born 1820)
25 July –Henry Mayhew, writer (born 1812)
16 August –Webster Paulson, civil engineer (born 1837)
12 October –Dinah Craik, novelist and poet (born 1826)
5 December –Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, diplomat (born 1817)
14 December –William Garrow Lettsom, diplomat, mineralogist and spectroscopist (born 1805)
23 December –Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, parson (born 1821)

References

^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 280.
^"The Loss of the Kapunda: Details of the Disaster".Belfast Morning News. 23 February 1887. p. 5. Retrieved18 March 2016.
^"Wattstown".Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Services Heritage Trail. Archived fromthe original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved13 October 2010.
^The Times: Past, Present, Future. 1985. pp. 44–5.
^^a ^bPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 313–314.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^Bax Horton, Sarah (2024).Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Murders. The History Press.ISBN 978-1-80399-748-3.
^"The Flag in the Wind – Features – Notable Dates in History".The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved14 July 2010.
^^a ^b ^cPenguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.ISBN 0-14-102715--0.
^"History of Jubilees – Queen Victoria".The British Monarchy.Royal Households of the United Kingdom#The Royal Household. Retrieved20 January 2011.
^Coogan, Tim Pat (2002).Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 250.ISBN 978-1-4039-6014-6.
^Wagg, Stephen (2002).British Football and Social Exclusion. Routledge. p. 196.ISBN 978-0-7146-5217-7.

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