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5 July – speed limit in Britain originally introduced by the Locomotive Act 1861 is reduced by the Locomotives Act 1865 – becoming 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country. [5] 14 July – a party led by Edward Whymper makes the first ascent of the Matterhorn. [1]
Pages in category "1865 in England" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Guilden Morden boar; L.
1865 in England (4 C, 5 P) 1865 in Ireland (2 C, 5 P) ... Pages in category "1865 in the United Kingdom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Edith Rebecca Saunders FLS (14 October 1865 – 6 June 1945) was a British geneticist and plant anatomist.Described by J. B. S. Haldane as the "Mother of British Plant Genetics", [1] she played an active role in the re-discovery of Mendel's laws of heredity, the understanding of trait inheritance in plants, and was the first collaborator of the geneticist William Bateson.
Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world.
1865 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1865th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 865th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1865, the ...
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The 1865 United Kingdom general election was held 7 July 1865 to 24 July 1865 to elect 658 members of the House of Commons. It saw the Liberals, led by Lord Palmerston, increase their large majority over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives to 80. Palmerston died in October the same year and was succeeded by Lord John Russell as Prime Minister. [1]