25 January – first international hockey match: Wales v. Ireland.[6]
6 February – Pope Leo XIII issues a decree blessing the Marian image of Our Lady of Walsingham for Catholic veneration at her newly restored shrine.
11 February – the lowest ever UK temperature of −27.2°C (measured as −17°F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
3–5 April – libel case of Wilde v Queensberry at the Old Bailey in London: Queensberry, defended by Edward Carson, is acquitted. Evidence of Wilde's homosexual relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the Labouchere Amendment, while the Libel Act 1843 renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless.
6 April – Oscar Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" and detained on remand in Holloway Prison.
15 April – the Welsh Grand Nationalsteeplechase is run for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.[13] Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.[14]
April – First-class cricket as defined by the MCC is first played in England from this season.
↑ "In the Beginning – 1800s". Official Website. Bolton Wanderers Football Club. 7 June 2005. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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