2007-03-25 03:59:52 · 7 answers · asked by Missy 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln in July 1865.
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in wonderland.
2007-03-25 04:04:33 · answer #1 · answered by Tracker 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Try 1865 in Google search and see what comes up. Probably in England the All England Red Nose Competition - yeah! even then, I kid you not. People with natural large noses, red usually, could take part in competitions to find who has the reddest and biggest nose. Are we mad or what? You bet. We had still not gotten around to the idea of events such as the football etc we enjoy today - so it was red nose thing instead. Remember that in c1865 UK was not having a war with anyone much apart from the usual skirmishes out there in the Empire. The next big war was not due until 1914-etc. So, to fill the time, we got up to a lot of 'silly things' fads and fashions etc.
Nothing changes except the date.
2007-03-25 20:44:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth of the future King George V.
The news in Britain in 1865
March: Yorkshire spinners strike for better pay and working conditions
9th of May: The Prince of Wales opens the International exhibition in Dublin
15th of July: British climbers scale the Matterhorn in Switzerland with Edward Whymper the only survivor.
25th of July: Dr James Barry a surgeon in the British army is found upon death to be a woman
April: Richard Cobdem dies
2nd of September: British settlers and Maori tribes end fighting in New Zealand
October: Parliament abolishes the practice of transporting criminals to the colonies
18th of October: Lord Palmerston dies, Lord Russell takes over as the new P.M
24th of November: The Fenian leader James Stephens escapes from jail with the help of his warders,
Manchester: The City death rate reaches 38 in every 1,000 due to poor conditions
Scotland: Edinburgh is found in a report to have appalling sanitary conditions.
London: A group of Trade Union leaders give the electoral reform movement by forming a reform league on the basis of one man one vote.
Jamaica: Race riots are crushed in Jamaica, Governor Eyre is recalled for 'tyranny'
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published
2007-03-29 00:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by Chariotmender 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The British Parliament passes the British Locomotives on Highways Act, or ` Red Flag Act ´ . It reduces the speed limit for steam - powered carriages to two miles per hour in cities and four in the country, and requires men on foot carrying red flags to precede them. It stifles further development of steam carriages and cars in Britain.
The authorities in Britain's Australian colonies refuse to accept further shipments of transported British criminals. As a result, longer, harsher sentences are introduced in Britain.
William and Catherine Booth launch their Christian Mission in Britain, which they will later name the Salvation Army.
Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, British statesman, prime minister 1855 - 58 and 1859 - 65, a Liberal, dies in Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England (80).
The Liberal politician Lord John Russell becomes prime minister of Great Britain.
Rudyard Kipling, English novelist, short - story writer, and poet, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India .
2007-03-25 05:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
JOSEPH RUDYARD KIPLING born Dec. 30, 1865. Short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
2007-03-25 09:35:33 · answer #5 · answered by Retired 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lister using antiseptics for the first time
2007-03-25 04:08:58 · answer #6 · answered by The Jade Merchant 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Victoria's taking her cocaine, in bundles?
2007-03-25 04:16:22 · answer #7 · answered by nativexile 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋