1890 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892

Sport

1890 English cricket season

1889-90 in English football

Events from the year 1890 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

Events

March 4: Forth Bridge is opened.

• 4 January - First edition of the Daily Graphic, the first British 'picture paper'.¹
• 4 March - The longest bridge in Britain, the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) in Scotland, is opened.²
• 12 May - The first official County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets.
• 1 July - Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany; Britain cedes Heligoland to Germany in return for Pemba and Zanzibar.¹
• 21 July - Battersea Bridge over the River Thames opens in London.²
• 8 September - the future King Edward VII becomes involved in the Royal Baccarat Scandal.
• September - Southampton Dock Strike of 1890.
• 22 October - Colony of Western Australia granted self-governing status.¹
• November - Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as the New Scotland Yard.
• 4 November - London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opens.² It runs a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.
• 18 December - British East Africa Company takes control of Uganda.¹.

Undated

• Prosecution of Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln for using ritualistic practices ends.
• Construction of the first electrical power station, at Deptford.¹

Publications

• Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four.
• Volume 1 of James George Frazer's study in religion, The Golden Bough.

Births

• 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist (died 1956)
• 17 February - Ronald Fisher, biologist (died 1962)
• 25 February - Dame Myra Hess, pianist (died 1965)
• 31 March - William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
• 16 April - Fred Root, cricketer (died 1954)
• 23 May - Herbert Marshall, actor (died 1966)
• 16 June - Stan Laurel, actor (died 1965)
• 15 September - Agatha Christie, writer (died 1976)
• 24 September - A. P. Herbert, politician and writer (died 1971)
• 17 October - Roy Kilner, cricketer (died 1928)
• 15 November - Richmal Crompton, writer (died 1969)
• 5 December - David Bomberg, painter (died 1957)
• 30 December - Lanoe Hawker, fighter pilot (died 1916)

Deaths

• 11 April - Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man), oddity (born 1862)
• 20 July - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector (born 1818)
• 11 August - John Henry Newman, Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1801)
• 4 October - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (born 1829)
• 20 October - Richard Francis Burton, explorer (born 1821)

References

See also