11 May 1864FranchiseWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Supports a wider franchise despite warnings by Palmerston not to commit the Government
Historical records for Great Britain in 1864, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Supports a wider franchise despite warnings by Palmerston not to commit the Government
Supports a wider franchise to include the northern towns
Supports a wider franchise to include the northern towns. Supports a wider franchise despite warnings by Palmerston not to commit the Government
Birth of Philip Snowden
Birth of Roger Casement
Hawkshaw helps complete Brunel's Clifton bridge design.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge opens to the public.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge opens to the public as a memorial to Brunel five years after his death.
Birth of Albert Victor, eldest son of Edward & Princess Alexandria
The completed structure is tested by placing about five hundred tons of stone across the bridge deck.
Appointed Dean of Westminster
Publication of "Dramatis Personae"
Publication of "General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters"
Snowden marries Ethel Annakin, a campaigner for womens suffrage
Publishes "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field", prposes that light was in fact undulations in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena
Finds that the spectrum of Andromeda resembles the continuous spectrum of stars rather than the emission spectrum of a gaseous nebula, indicating a stellar nature.
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