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Events relating to england
Executions take place in public for the last time in London, being moved from outside Newgate Gaol to inside the prison
Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone becomes British prime minister, for the first of four times, and remains in office for six years
English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy, an influential collection of essays about contemporary society
The most famous of the three-masted tea-clippers, the Cutty Sark is launched at Dumbarton for service to and from China
French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London
The all-round English cricketer W.G. Grace begins a 28-year career as captain of Gloucestershire
Whistler paints his mother and calls the picture Arrangement in Grey and Black
English actor Henry Irving plays what becomes one of his most famous parts, that of Mathias in the melodrama The Bells
George Eliot publishes Middlemarch, in which Dorothea makes a disastrous marriage to the pedantic Edward Casaubon
Whistler begins to paint his Nocturnes, a revolutionary series of night-time images on the river Thames
The Ballot Act adds to the British electoral system the essential element of secrecy in voting
Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli, at the age of 70, begins a 6-year term of office as Britain's prime minister
English author Thomas Hardy has his first success with his novel Far from the Madding Crowd
Charles Stewart Parnell takes his seat in the House of Commons at Westminster and immediately adds zest to the campaign for Home Rule
William Crookes invents the radiometer, in which light causes four vanes to rotate in a bulb containing gas at low pressure
After spending much time in Europe in recent years, Henry James moves there permanently and settles first in Paris
Benjamin Disraeli buys for Britain a controlling share in the Suez Canal, with money borrowed from Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
An agreement is signed between France and Britain to cooperate in the construction of a tunnel beneath the Channel
Henry James's early novel Roderick Hudson is serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and is published in book form in 1876
The chaotic government finances of Egypt are placed under joint French and British control
William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month
Henry James moves to London, which remains his home for the next 22 years
India becomes the 'jewel in the crown' of Queen Victoria when Benjamin Disraeli secures for her the title Empress of India
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins develops a new verse form that he calls 'sprung rhythm'
George Eliot publishes Daniel Deronda, contrasting Jewish idealism with upper-class English materialism
