page_title: 1895 in the United Kingdom
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1895 in the United Kingdom / Events
context_page_description: Events from the year 1895 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: January–February – "Great Frost".
  3 January – première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
  5 January - Guy Domville, a play by Henry James has its premiere at the newly renovated St James theatre in London.
  12 January – the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
  25 January – first international hockey match: Wales v. Ireland.
  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.)
  14 February – première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, at St. James' Theatre, London.
  18 February – the Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel.
  6 March – Snailbeach lead mine disaster in Shropshire: 7 men are killed when a winding cable breaks.
  16 March – first international hockey match played by an England team: England v. Ireland at Richmond, Surrey. England win 5–0.
  29 March – the National Trust acquires, by donation, its first landholding for preservation, Dinas Oleu, above Barmouth in Wales.
  30 March – Birt Acres films The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race.
  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.
  2 May – British South Africa Company's territory south of the Zambesi renamed 'Rhodesia'.
  25 May
  Criminal case of Regina v. Wilde: After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour. On 21 November he is transferred to Reading Gaol.
  Henry Irving becomes the first actor invested with a knighthood.
  21 June – Lord Rosebery resigns as Prime Minister after defeat in a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons over the supply of cordite to the army. Lord Salisbury returns to the office on 25 June.
  6 July – Hon Evelyn Ellis makes the first trip in England with an imported motor car, driving his Panhard from Micheldever railway station to his home in Datchet.
  13 July – 7 August – general election is won by the Conservative Party, confirming Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister.
  15 July – Archie MacLaren scores a County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
  10 August
  Bolton Wanderers F.C. move into their new Burnden Park stadium.
  The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall, Langham Place, London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor.
  29 August – the Northern Rugby Football Union is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield. This is now the governing body for the sport of Rugby league, known as the Rugby Football League.
  11 September – the FA Cup is stolen from a shop window in Birmingham; it is never recovered.
  14 September – Derby County F.C. move into the Baseball Ground, which was built five years ago to serve the town's unsuccessful baseball team.
  October – the London School of Economics holds its first classes
  4 October – English golfer Horace Rawlins, 21, wins 
caption: Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Oscar Wilde on the night before his trial opens[1]
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