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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]
September 23 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker and coachman in Victorian England (born 1795) September 29 – François Joseph Heim, French painter (born 1787) November 1 – Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor (born 1792) December 24 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (born 1793) date ...
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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.
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]
"The Colonists Under Liberty Tree," Cassell's Illustrated History of England, 1865. In 1765, the British Parliament introduced the Stamp Act, which was directed at Britain's American colonies. It required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.
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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.