a tenement collapses in the Old Town, Edinburgh, killing 35 with 15 survivors. 1 December – Trent Affair: British government dispatches its response, partly drafted by The Prince Consort. Undated James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the principle of three-colour photography (see picture). British Empire establishes bases in Lagos to stop the slave trade. Perpetual Truce of Peace and Friendship signed between Bahrain and the U.K. The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Manchester in Salford is consecrated as the oldest purpose-built Greek Orthodox Church in England. Construction commences on Royal Museum in Edinburgh. Crimean War Memorial unveiled in London, including sculptures of Other Ranks. William Morris founds the influential furnishing company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Publications Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations complete in book form. George Eliot's novel Silas Marner. F. T. Palgrave's anthology Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics, 1st edition. Charles Reade's novel The Cloister and the Hearth. Anthony Trollope's novels Framley Parsonage (book form) and Orley Farm (serialisation begins). Mrs Henry Wood's 'sensation novel' East Lynne. The anthology Hymns Ancient and Modern. This includes the setting "Eventide" by the music editor William Henry Monk for the hymn Abide with Me. Births 22 January – Maurice Hewlett, historical novelist, poet and essayist (died 1923) 15 February Halford Mackinder, geographer (died 1947) Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician (died 1947) 19 February – Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne, general (died 1929) 23 April – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, soldier, administrator (died 1936) 12 June – William Attewell, cricketer (died 1927) 17 June – Sidney Jones, musical comedy composer (died 1946) 19 June – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, soldier (died 1928) 20 June – Frederick Hopkins, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (died 1947) 9 July – William Burrell, Scottish shipowner and art collector (died 1958) 4 August – Henry Head, neurologist (died 1940) 10 August – Almroth Wright, bacteriologist, immunologist (died 1947) 2 September – Arthur Beresford Pite, architect (died 1934) 23 September – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, poet and novelist (died 1907) 12 October – Agnes Jekyll, née Graham, artist, writer on domestic matters and philanthropist (died 1937) 16 October – J. B. Bury, historian (died 1927) 23 October – Margaret McKellar, Scottish-born Canadian medical missionary (died 1941) 8 November – William Price Drury, novelist, playwright and Royal Marines officer (died 1949) 10 November – Amy Levy, novelist