England

Voting by secret ballot was introduced for the first time

The demand for a secret ballot was one of the six points of Chartism.

Arthur William Moore, Manx historia, died

Arthur William Moore (1853–1909) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who held significant positions in various British colonies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is particularly associated with his service in British Guiana (now Guyana) and Fiji. Here is an overview of his career:

King Edward VII, was born

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

Capt. Charles Boycott, despised English estate manager in Ireland, born

Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, the English land agent in Ireland whose name became synonymous with ostracism, was born on March 12, 1832, in Norfolk, England. Boycott worked as an estate manager for Lord Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. During the Irish Land War in the late 19th century, a period marked by agrarian unrest and the struggle for land reform in Ireland, Boycott became a focal point of conflict due to his role in enforcing evictions and high rents on behalf of the absentee landlord.

Walter Hawken Tregellas, born

Walter Hawken Tregellas (10 July 1831 – 28 May 1894) was a British writer of historical, biographical and other works. He was also a professional draughtsman.

Sir Richard Francis Burton, adventurer, writer, swordsman, scholar and explorer, born

Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS ( 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier.

Leonard McNally, lawyer and English informer, dies

John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born

John Couch Adams (born June 5, 1819, Laneast, Cornwall, Eng.—died Jan. 21, 1892, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a British mathematician and astronomer, one of two people who independently discovered the planet Neptune.

Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, is born

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the gender neutral pen name Currer Bell. Jane Eyre went on to become a success in publication, and is widely held in high regard in the gothic fiction genre of literature.

The British Act of Union is passed