18 January – Dr William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, at Llantrisant. Later tried at Cardiff Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on 14 March.[2]
3 March – sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins, the "Black Widows of Liverpool", are hanged for poisoning Higgins' husband for an insurance payout; they are suspected of at least four other similar murders.[5]
22 April – Colchester earthquake ("the Great English earthquake") measuring EMS-98 VIII (Heavily damaging)[7] is the UK's most destructive, although no direct fatalities can be confirmed.[8]
6 December – Representation of the People Act ("Third Reform Act") extends the franchise uniformly across the U.K. in county as well as borough constituencies to all male tenants paying a £10 rental or occupying land to that value.[6] This extends the franchise from around 3,040,000 voters to around 5,700,000.[17]
9 December – Dudley and Stephens receive the mandatory death penalty with a recommendation for clemency and on 13 December are told that their penalties have been commuted to six months' imprisonment.
1 2 Porter, Bernard (1991). The Origins of the Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Police Special Branch before the First World War (Repr.ed.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN085115283X.
↑ Wolstenholme, Edward Parker; Cherry, Benjamin Lennard; Brinton, Willfred (1895). The Conveyancing Acts 1881, 1882 and 1892. London: William Clowes & Sons. pp.274, 266. 268.
↑ "The Forestry Exhibition". The Morning Post. London. 2 July 1884. p.3.
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