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4 June – the lyrics of the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers", written by Sabine Baring-Gould as "Hymn for Procession with Cross and Banners", are first sung by children processing to St Peter's Church, Horbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [3] 7 June – Rednal rail crash in Shropshire: 13 killed, 30 injured.
Primary schoolchildren playing hopscotch in Cuba, where the game is known as pon Moves in a Hungarian hopscotch (the black dot being the stone, cast and retrieved) Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground ...
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.
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 ...
A number of similar murders in England follows, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers. 17 December: The Lyric Theatre opens in the West End. [15] Parliament Hill is purchased by the Metropolitan Board of Works to preserve it as a public viewpoint. The first police boxes are erected in London. St Dunstan's College is refounded in ...
A Child's History of England is a book by English author Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words , running from 25 January 1851 to 10 December 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on 20 December 1851, the second on 25 December 1852 and the third on 24 December 1853. [ 1 ]
6 August – Catherine Sinclair, Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1800) 15 September – John Hanning Speke, explorer (born 1827; accident) 17 September – Walter Savage Landor, writer and poet (born 1775) 1 October – Ignatius Spencer, priest (born 1799) 25 November – David Roberts, painter (born 1796)