Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom
Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons During the Debates on the Treaty of France on February 1st
1 January – Cray Wanderers Football Club formed in St Mary Cray , north Kent .
25 January – HMS Prince of Wales , a 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard .
February – Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom recommends erection of the Palmerston Forts .
27 February – paddle steamer Nimrod St David's Head in Wales and 45 people are killed.
28 February – the Artists Rifles is established, as the 38th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteer Corps, with headquarters at Burlington House in London.[1]
March – Food and Drink Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs.[2]
7 March – HMS Howe , the Royal Navy 's last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line , is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
17 March – First Taranaki War between the Māori and British colonists in New Zealand begins.[2]
17 April – one of the last major bare-knuckle boxing matches in England, and the first major international, between Tom Sayers and American heavyweight John C. Heenan at Farnborough, Hampshire , ends in a draw as police arrive to break up the event.[2]
22 April – Eastbourne manslaughter .
28 May – One of the worst storms ever experienced in the region hits the east coast of England, sinking more than 100 ships and killing at least 40 people.[3]
30 June – A historic debate about evolution is held, at the Oxford University Museum .
9 July – the Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses , the first nursing school based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale , is opened at St Thomas' Hospital in London .
22 August – the British navy assists the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi to cross from Sicily to the mainland of Italy .
30 August – the first street trams in Britain are introduced in Birkenhead .[4]
October – John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile .
5 October – Austria , Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians , committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.
17 October – the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick in Scotland ,[4] [5] Open , although it is not truly open until the following year.[2]
18 October – Second Opium War :
November – the 'Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs', predecessor of the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home , is established in London by Mary Tealby .
1 December
26 December – The first Rules derby is held between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C. , the oldest football fixture in the world.
29 December – the world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship , HMS Warrior is launched on the Thames.[4]
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Britain produces 20% of the entire world's output of industrial goods.
First recorded fish and chip shops in the UK, Joseph Malin's in London[8] Mossley near Oldham , Lancashire.[9]
8 January – Emma Booth-Tucker , Salvationist (died 1903 in the United States)
21 February – Goscombe John , Welsh sculptor (died 1952)
25 February – William Ashley , economic historian (died 1927)
6 March – Frederick George Jackson , Arctic explorer (died 1938)
22 March – John George Bartholomew , Scottish cartographer (died 1920)
9 April – Emily Hobhouse , humanitarian, feminist and pacifist (died 1926)
2 May
7 May – Tom Norman , showman (died 1930)
9 May – J. M. Barrie , author (died 1937)
30 May – Archibald Thorburn , wildlife painter (died 1935)
6 June – William Inge , dean and theologian (died 1954)
13 June – Lancelot Speed , illustrator (died 1931)
25 June – Sutherland Macdonald , tattoo artist (died 1942)
20 July – Margaret McMillan , American-born pioneer of nursery education (died 1931)
22 July – Frederick Rolfe , writer and artist (died 1913)
31 July – George Warrender , admiral (died 1917)
3 August – W. K. Dickson , inventor (died 1935)
5 August – Louis Wain , humorous artist (died 1939)
7 August – Alan Leo , born William F. Allan, astrologer (died 1917)
11 September – Ben Tillett , trade union leader (died 1943)
22 November – Etta Lemon , born Smith, bird conservationist (died 1953)
8 December – Amanda McKittrick Ros , born Anna McKittrick, Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died 1939)
20 December – Dan Leno , music hall comedian (died 1904)
1 January – Thomas Hobbes Scott , clergyman (born 1783)
27 January – Sir Thomas Brisbane , astronomer (born 1773)
9 February – William Evans Burton , dramatist, theatre manager and publisher (born 1804)
17 March – Anna Brownell Jameson , cultural historian (born 1794)
25 March – James Braid , surgeon (born 1795)[11]
4 May – William Ormsby-Gore , politician (born 1779)
12 May – Sir Charles Barry , architect (born 1795)
16 May – Anne Isabella Milbanke , wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (born 1792)[12]
11 June – Baden Powell , mathematician and Church of England priest (born 1796)
29 June – Thomas Addison , physician (born 1793)
17 July – Betsi Cadwaladr , Crimea nurse (born 1789)
2 August – Sir Henry Ward , diplomat, politician and colonial administrator (born 1797)
3 August – Sir Henry Wyndham , British Army General and Conservative Party politician (born 1790)
12 October – Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet , military commander (born 1787)
31 October – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , admiral (born 1775)
11 December – Anne Knight , children's writer and educationist (born 1792 )
14 December – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 281–282. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 Among those rescued at sea is the crew of the brig Hannah , captained by George Jezzard, the great-great-great-grandfather of actor David Suchet . Moseley, Brian (May 2011). "Western Morning News" . The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History . Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2015 . 
