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26 January–29 March – the first British Home Championship is held between the Association football teams of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 1 February – first fascicle of what will become the Oxford English Dictionary is published. [1] 5 February – Derby County Football Club is founded in England.
17 January – Mahdist War: British victory at the Battle of Abu Klea. 24 January Irish terrorists damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. [1] Edge Hill College opens in Liverpool. 26 January – Mahdist War: in Sudan, following the Siege of Khartoum, British and Egyptian forces are defeated by the Mahdist Sudanese.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1884. The first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801 ; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland .
(Source: Adapted from Seymour) By comparison when universal manhood suffrage was introduced for the 1918 general election, there were 12,913,166 registered male electors in the United Kingdom (including University electors), as opposed to the registration at the December 1910 general election of 7,709,981 (again including University electors).
William Ewart Gladstone in 1884.. In the United Kingdom under the premiership of William Gladstone, the Representation of the People Act 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3), also known informally as the Third Reform Act, [1] and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in the UK after the Derby government's Reform Act 1867. [2]
The Emergence of British Parliamentary Democracy in the Nineteenth Century: The Passing of the Reform Acts of 1832, 1867, and 1884-1885. (Major Issues in History). (John Wiley and Sons. 1971) online also at Google Books. Evans, Eric J. Parliamentary reform in Britain, c. 1770-1918 (Longman, 1999) Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of ...
Representation of the People Act 1884; Redistribution of Seats Act 1885; 1885 United Kingdom general election in Ireland; 1885 United Kingdom general election in Scotland; Hawarden Kite, Gladstone announces for Home Rule and wins over the Irish