1895 in The United Kingdom - Events

Events

• January–February — ”Great Frost”.
• 3 January — Première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
• 12 January — The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
• 25 January — First international hockey match: Wales v. Ireland.
• 11 February — The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
• 14 February — Première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, at St. James' Theatre, London.
• 18 February — The Marquess of Queensberry leaves a message at the Albermarle Club accusing Oscar Wilde of being a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel. The case of Wilde v Queensberry opens on 3 April, with Edward Carson defending Queensbury.
• 16 March — First international hockey match played by an England team: England v. Ireland at Richmond, Surrey. England win 5–0.
• 29 March — The National Trust acquires, by donation, its first landholding for preservation, Dinas Oleu, above Barmouth in Wales.
• 30 March — Birt Acres films The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race.
• 6 April — Oscar Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, for gross indecency, after losing his libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• 2 May — British South Africa Company's territory south of the Zambesi renamed 'Rhodesia'.
• 25 May
  • Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour.
  • Henry Irving becomes the first actor invested with a knighthood.
• 21 June — Lord Rosebery resigns as Prime Minister after defeat in a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons over the supply of cordite to the army. Lord Salisbury takes over the office.
• 15 July — Archie MacLaren scores a County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
• 7 August — General election is won by the Conservative Party under Lord Salisbury.
• 10 August
  • First Henry Wood Promenade Concert held, at the Queen's Hall, London.
  • Bolton Wanderers F.C. move into their new Burnden Park stadium.
• 29 August — The Northern Rugby Football Union is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield. This is now the governing body for the sport of Rugby League, known as the Rugby Football League.
• 11 September — The FA Cup is stolen from a shop window in Birmingham; it is never recovered.
• 14 September — Derby County F.C. move into the Baseball Ground, which was built five years ago to serve the town's unsuccessful baseball team.
• 4 October — English golfer Horace Rawlins, 21, wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament.
• 15 October — First motor show in Britain held at Tunbridge Wells.
• 1 November — The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey.
• December — Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War begins.
• 24 December — Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: In Ireland, the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.
• 29 December — The Jameson Raid: invasion of Transvaal.