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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]
From 1873 to 1898 41 Board Schools are built around Birmingham to the designs of architects Martin & Chamberlain, characterised by red brick and architectural terracotta with ventilation spires. [27] Snow Hill railway station is rebuilt to increase capacity. 1871–1872 & 1874 – Smallpox epidemics. [2] 1872
The earliest English equestrian statue. Originally commissioned in 1630 by Charles I's Lord Treasurer, Sir Richard Weston, for his house Mortlake Park in Roehampton. Erected on the site of the Charing Cross in 1674–5, when the pedestal was carved by Joshua Marshall. [18] Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2: John Bushnell
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 ...
He completed the painting in 1865, when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. [2] Frith was paid a fee of £3,000 for the painting, while the art dealer Louis Flatow bought the copyright for £5,000. [3] In 1875 The Marriage of the Prince of Wales was in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace. [2]
Ammi Phillips (April 24, 1788 – July 11, 1865) was a prolific American itinerant portrait painter active from the mid 1810s to the early 1860s in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. [1] His artwork is identified as folk art, primitive art, provincial art, and itinerant art without consensus among scholars, pointing to the enigmatic ...
A statue of Ingram is in the Market Place in Boston in front of St. Botolph's Church (Boston "Stump"). The statue was designed by Alexander Munro (sculptor) and was unveiled in October 1862. The allegorical figure at the base of the monument is a reference to Ingram's efforts to bring the first piped water to the town.
The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situated on a plinth of Portland stone in a public space known as The Centre in Bristol, until it was toppled by anti-racism protestors in 2020.