October – Morant Bay rebellion: An unsuccessful uprising against British rule at Morant Bay, Jamaica, is brutally suppressed with 400 rebels executed. 29 October – Lord John Russell becomes Prime Minister following the death of Lord Palmerston on 18 October. 6 November – American Civil War: Surrender to HMS Donegal at Liverpool of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah. 11 November – Duar War with Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy. 16 December – Edward John Eyre, governor of Jamaica, dismissed and censured for his excessive actions during the suppression of the recent rebellion. Undated Legal case of St Helen's Smelting Co v Tipping decided in the House of Lords: a landowner is entitled to recover damages for harm done to his trees by fumes from a copper smelter. James Clerk Maxwell publishes A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. Joseph Lister discovers the sterilising effects of carbolic acid. Major outbreak of rinderpest in British cattle. Fisherman's Friend menthol remedy developed by pharmacist James Lofthouse of Fleetwood. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation founded in Hong Kong by Thomas Sutherland. Gladiateur wins the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger. Publications Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend (publication concludes). Robert Smith Surtees' novel Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (posthumous). A. C. Swinburne's narrative poem Atalanta in Calydon. Anthony Trollope's novel Can You Forgive Her? (publication concludes). Births 23 January – Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney, child actress and model (died 1946) 9 April – Violet Nicolson ('Laurence Hope'), poet (suicide 1904) 2 June – George Lohmann, cricketer (died 1901) 3 June – King George V (died 1936) 15 July – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (died 1922) 15 August – Louisa Aldrich-Blake, surgeon (died 1925) 26 August – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian electrical engineer, inventor (d. 1946) 12 October – Arthur Harden, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940) 20 October – Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet, judge (died 1955) 27 October – Tinsley Lindley, footballer (died 1940) 4 December – Edith Cavell, nurse (executed 1915) 30 December – Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936) Deaths 8 January – John Dobson, architect (born 1787) 6 February – Mrs Isabella Beeton, writer on household