Buried (Hawley, Fred)

Died (Hawley, Fred)

Hawley, Fred (1882 - 1882)

Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed

Gunfight at OK Corral

Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)

Postal Orders introduced

Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy

Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK

Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds

Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria

Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time

Edison & Swan invent electric lamp

Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph

CID established at New Scotland Yard

Edison invents microphone and phonograph

Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights

London's main sewage system completed

Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)

Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York

Factory Act introduces 56-hour week

American ship 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned by the British brig 'Dei Gratia' in the Atlantic Ocean

Licensing hours introduced

Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)

Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal

Opening of Royal Albert Hall, London

First Rugby Football international, England v Scotland, played in Edinburgh

First British postcard - halfpenny post

GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)

Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children

Water closets come into wide use

Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa

Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton

Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented

Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)

The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation

William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London

End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA

Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]

First concrete roads built in Britain

Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened

Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention

The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time

A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship

Football Association founded (UK)

Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England