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January 16 Opening and dedication of St Matthew’s Mission Church in Kemp Town.
January 23 Weekly Brighton[, Hove and Cliftonville] Advertiser launched.
January 31 Opening services of the Brighton Mission.
February 17 Mysterious death near Devil’s Dyke.
February 26 Fracas between soldiers and police at Brighton.
March 2 A gale capsizes a cab at Brighton.
March 5 Drapers’ firm of Leeson & Vokins opens in North Street.
March 30 First edition of The Argus.
April 3 At the election Marriott and Holland are returned for Brighton.
April 29 Important dispute between Brighton Town Council and the Guardians.
May 5 Brighton alderman fined for cruelty to a horse.
May 5 Extraordinary suicide of a soldier at Brighton.
May 8 American author Bret Harte visits Brighton Aquarium.
May 15 Melancholy suicide of a Brighton gentleman at Worthing.
May 17 Polo and military sports at Preston Park.
May 18 Attempted murder at Sheepcote Valley.
May 19 Romantic suicide of a young man at Brighton.
May 22 The foundation stone is laid for the new town hall in Hove.
June 7 Sudden death of a man on Brighton beach.
June 9 Serious fire at Brighton railway works.
June 12 New reading room opens at the Aquarium.
June 19 A great fire in Queen’s Road causes £20,000-worth of damage.
June 26 Bradlaugh indignation meeting on The Level.
July 24 The Brighton coach suffers an accident.
July 26 Three prisoners escape from a Brighton prison van at Lewes.
August 2 Gaiety music hall opens.
August 11 Rev J J Hannah summonsed for alleged assault.
September 15 Private view of the 7th annual exhibition of modern pictures in oil at the Royal Pavilion.
October 13 A man falls to his death from a ladder in Queen’s Road.
October 20 Visit of HRH Princess Christian to Brighton.
October 26 Two men drown when a fishing boat capsizes off the West Pier.
November 1 Brighton municipal elections.
November 19 Inaugural meeting of the Brighton Church Sunday School Association.
December 9 Recitation context at The Dome.
December 14 Suicide at Rottingdean.
December? Aldrington becomes a local planning authority.
January 18 Great snow storm at Brighton.
January Brighton Corporation decides to hold a competition to design a clock tower and urinal to be erected in North Street, not to exceed £1,500 without the clock, Premiums of £20, £15 and £10 are offered. The deadline is 16:00 on 3 March. Letter to Town Clerk re same.
February 14 Serious charge against anti-vaccinators at Brighton police court.
February 19 William Gladstone visits Brighton.
February 23 At the Brighton bench, a libel case is heard in Ear of Sheffield v Henry Willett.
February 25 Election of T L Wilson as a Brighton alderman.
February 28 Police constable charged with assaulting a Brighton tradesman.
March 19 Consecration of an altar at St Joseph’s RC Church, Brighton.
April 2 Reopening of Hove parish church.
April 7 Appointment of James Terry as chief constable of Brighton.
April 16 Yeomanry Club opens in Middle Street.
May 18 Reopening of St Stephen’s Church, Brighton.
May 30 Serious charge of forgery at Brighton.
June 1 Brighton Town Council resolves to buy 300,000 paving bricks at an average price of £3 10s 6d a thousand.
June 4 Destructive fire in Preston Street.
June 20 Case of alleged libel on a Brighton solicitor is heard.
June 28 Sarah Bernhardt appears at Brighton Theatre.
July 21 During a visit to Brighton by the Prince and Princess of Wales, the children’s hospital is opened by Princess Alexandra.
July 21 Aquatic display off the West Pier.
August 3 Electric light experiments at the Goldstone waterworks.
August 9 Benefit cricket match for Lillywhite at the Hove ground.
August 18 Borough Sanatorium opens.
September 20 Anti-vaccination conference in Brighton.
September 20 New steam laundry opens at the Grand Hotel.
September 21 Eighth annual exhibition of modern pictures opens at the Pavilion.
September 22 Brighton Picture Gallery opens.
September 26 Opening of the new Finsbury Road Board School.
September 28 Roman Catholic church at Cliftonville opens.
October 18 Industrial exhibition at East Brighton.
October 31 A woman dies in a fall from the cliffs at Black Rock.
November 7 Guy Fawkes celebrations at Brighton.
November 8 Lefroy sentenced to death for Brighton railway murder; he is executed on the 29th.
December 2 Pullman car express starts.
December 12 Sanitary and Scientific Exhibition at Brighton is opened by the Earl of Chichester.
December 27 A lad has his head blown off in an accident at the Oxford Music Hall in New Road.
December 28 J C Craven is elected a Brighton alderman.
January 2 The foundation stone for St Matthew’s Church in Sutherland Road is laid.
January 3 Lillie Langtry appears at the Brighton Theatre as Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer. Langtry, celebrated as a leading society beauty, had been acting for only a few weeks, having debuted in this role at the Haymarket Theatre the previous month.
January 18 Brighton Town Council rejects the proposal for a Kursaal.
January 18 Serious building accident in Sackville Road, West Brighton.
February 19 Exceptionally high tide at Brighton.
March 1 Brighton Town Council agrees to buy Preston Park at a cost of £96,000 (?).
March 21 Opening of a new coffee house in Edward Street is worthy of note.
March 30 Meeting of the burgesses of West ward to consider the proposed purchase of Preston Park.
April 2 Meeting of the burgesses of Pier ward to consider the proposed purchase of Preston Park.
April 4 Meeting of the burgesses of Pavilion ward to consider the proposed purchase of Preston Park.
April 18 Meeting at the College Road gymnasium to protest against the purchase of Preston Park.
April 20 The Spring Exhibition of Modern Water-Colour Drawings opens to the public.
April 21 Petition for the winding-up of the Aquarium is heard.
April 26 Brighton MP J K Holland addresses his constituents at the Viaduct Road Mission.
April 72 Meeting of the burgesses of Preston ward to consider the proposed purchase of Preston Park.
May 2 Lillie Langtry is at Brighton Theatre again.
May 6 Hurricane.
May 11 A Vestry meeting decides against the purchase of Preston Park.
May 11 A Vestry meeting at Preston considers the cemetery question.
May 27 Consecration of the new cemetery.
May 27 Foundation stone is laid for St Barnabas Church in Sackville Road.
June 7 Aquatic sports at Brill’s Baths.
June 19 Charge of wilful murder against a woman at Hove.
June 21 Brighton Town Council resolves to bring a libel action against The Lancet.
June 27 Brighton Town Council receives and adopts Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s report on the sanitary arrangements of the town.
June 29 Great public meeting at Brighton town hall about The Lancet libel.
June 29 Dedication of the new bells at St Peter’s Church.
August 2 Hove Town Hall carillons first chimed.
August 4 Narrow division in Brighton Town Council on the Preston Park question.
August 14 Dedication festival of the Annunciation Church.
August 15 Sarah Bernhardt at the Brighton Theatre.
September 22 Mass meeting at The Dome about the purchase of Preston Park.
September 26 Local Government Board inquiry at Brighton about the Preston Park question.
October 7 Fire destroys the Grand Concert Hall in West Street, the Castle Hotel in Middle Street Hamilton’s ??
October 13 A Vestry meeting of Preston ratepayers decides against providing a new cemetery.
October 18 Foundation stone of St Luke’s Church is laid by the Bishop of Chichester.
October 19 Re-opening of Trinity Church, Brighton.
November 6 Brighton Town Council decides to apply for a provisional order for electric lighting.
December 13 Opening ceremony for Hove Town Hall by J W Howlett, chairman of Hove Commissioners with a grand banquet in the evening and an inhabitants’ ball next day.
December 18 Concert at Hove town hall in aid of fire brigade funds.
December 20 Brighton Town Council again considers the question of electric lighting.
December 21 First meeting of Hove Commissioners in the new town hall.
• Middle Street is renumbered.
January 3 Brighton Town Council decides to spend £6,000 on improvements to the seafront.
January 13 Charles Harris Franklin is found guilty of the manslaughter of Craven Patrick Trenchard by throwing a box onto his head from the top of the West Pier. He is sentenced on the 15th to two months without hard labour.
January 17 Brighton Town Council resolves to oppose the granting of a provisional order to the Union Lighting Company for lighting the town.
January 19 Public meeting at Brighton town hall at which borrowing money for the new water works development and electric lighting of the Pavilion is authorised.
January 30 At Brighton Bench a barber is heavily fined for selling beer without a licence.
January 31 Anti-vaccination gathering at Brighton town hall.
February 28 Opening of a new coffee house at 5 Preston Road is worthy of mention.
March 7 A workman falls to is death from a stage on which was working at Brighton railway station.
March 9 A man is killed by the fall of an embankment in Hove.
March 15 The Brighton and Sussex Eye Hospital is renamed the Sussex Eye Hospital.
March 16 A meeting is held at Hove town hall in furtherance of a scheme for a winter garden.
April 3 Electric lighting experiments at the Pavilion.
April 11 Meeting at the Pavilion for the prevention of degradation to women.
April 12 General Booth opens new Salvation Army barracks at Sackville Road, Hove.
June 2 [Whit Sunday] The first sod turned by Mrs Alderman Davey for the Dyke Railway.
June 11 St Barnabas’ Church in Sackville Road is consecrated by the Bishop of Chichester.
June 29 Jubilee Clock Tower is unveiled.
July 13 Opening services at St Matthew’s Church in Sutherland Road, Kemp Town.
July 27 Opening of the Trafalgar Street steps.
August 6 Temperance demonstration at Withdean.
September 3 A boy is washed off the Aquarium groyne during a storm and drowned.
September 10 Preston Park opens.
September 20 Revision of Brighton voters’ lists begins.
September 21 Consecration of St Matthew’s Church in Sutherland Road, Kemp Town.
September 27 At a special meeting, Hove Commissioners reject a motion for the construction of temporary sea defences.
October 4 Brighton Town Council resolves to spend £25,000 on the improvement of King’s Road between the Grand Hotel and the Aquarium.
October 5 Brighton West Pier Company declares a dividend of 12 per cent.
October 6 Grand military tournament at Preston Park by 4th Dragoon Guards in aid of Brighton charities.
October 18 The racecourse is presented to the town.
October 24 At a special meeting Brighton Town Council rejects a report by the General Purposes Committee recommending construction of tramways within the borough.
October 28 Hospital Sunday in Brighton raises £1,389 16s 7d.
October 30 Brighton Town Council resolves to apply to the Local Government Board for sanction to borrow £60,000 for public electric lighting.
October 31 Oscar Wilde lectures on America in Brighton.
November 1 Opening of a new organ in the Chapel Royal, North Street.
November 1 Brighton municipal elections.
November 2 Dedication. Festival at All Souls’ Church, Brighton.
November 3 Piano recital in Brighton by Vladimir de Pachmann.
November 6 Alderman A H Cox unanimously re-elected mayor of Brighton.
November 20 Crowded meeting at the Corn Exchange rejects the Town Council’s proposed Improvement Bill.
November 21 Noisy meeting with the Brighton MPs at The Dome.
November 22 Brighton Town Council decides to defer the electric lighting question.
November 23 At an adjourned meeting of Brighton Town Council the mayor rules a motion by William Hall re tramways out of order.
November 26 A meeting of owners and ratepayers support the Brighton Improvement Bill.
December 5 Opening of the new organ at Holy Trinity Church in Blatchington Road, Hove.
December 15 Rowdy meeting at the Corn Exchange against the Improvements Bill.
December 17 Uproarious meeting at Hove about the tramways question.
December 19 Declaration of the result of the town poll on the Improvements Bill: for 7,721, against 4,417.
December 26 A chestnut tree presented by William Gladstone is planted in Preston Park by the mayoress, Mrs A H Cox.
December 27 Special meeting of Hove Commissioners about sea defences and railway recommendations.
January 11 Visit of the Transvaal delegation to Brighton at the invitation of Cllr William Hall.
January 17 Local Government Board enquiry at Brighton town hall into borrowing £25,000 for widening of King’s Road.
January 28 Terrific gale on the south coast.
January 31-February 1 Meeting of Brighton Town Council to discuss the Improvements Bill.
February 1 Disgraceful scenes at Rottingdean, where wreckage of spirits are washed ashore.
February 2 Meeting at the School of Science and Art to consider the best means of clearing the debt on the school.
February 4 Collision off Beachy Head.
February 4 Final meeting of Brighton Town Council to discuss the Improvements Bill.
February 4 Fatal accident at Brighton railway works.
February 7 Brighton Town Council decides to sanction the new railway to Brighton and oppose the Central Pier Bill.
February 18 William Marriott MP, one of Brighton’s Liberal MPs, applies for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds to create a by-election and test the feeling of the Brighton electorate on the foreign policy if the government.
February 26 Nomination of candidates for the by-election.
March 1 William Marriott, standing as a Conservative, wins the by-election.
March 4 Opening of the defence in the Brighton conspiracy case.
March 5 In the conspiracy case, Messrs Cox and Railton are found guilty.
March 13 In separate meetings, Brighton Town Council and Hove Commissioners decide to petition parliament in favour of the London, Reigate and Brighton Railway Bill.
March 14 Brill’s Baths Company decides to oppose the section of the Improvements Bill relating to public tidal and swimming baths.
March 15 Meeting od=f municipal engineers at Hove town hall.
March 27 Inspection and opening of the Madeira Road [Volk’s] Electric Railway.
March 27 Making of the new poor and borough rates at Brighton and appointment of an overseer.
March 28 Opening of the new Salvation Army Congress Hall in Park Crescent.
April 30 Influential meeting in opposition to the clauses in the Improvement Bill relating to the notification of infectious diseases.
May 1 Foundation stone laid for the West Brighton Women’s Institute.
May 9 Notification of infection diseases clause removed from the Improvements Bill.
May 24 Two members of Brighton Rowing Club are drowned in an accident at Shoreham.
June 4 A report presented to Hove Commissioners by the engineers recommending the sea wall be carried down to the chalk at a very large expense, is rejected by the Local Government Board.
June 19 Brighton Town Council decides to petition the Home Secretary for the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate for the borough.
June 20 Opening of Connaught Road Schools in Hove.
July 3 The Brighton District Steam Tramways Company opens the Aldrington and Shoreham Line.
July 10 Shocking suicide off the cliff at Rottingdean.
July 18 Brighton Improvement Bill in parliament.
July 21 Brighton’s first stipendiary magistrate, Charles Gilbert Heathcote, takes up his post.
August 4 Death from excitement of a medical gentleman on the West Pier.
August 13 Duke of Wellington collapses and dies at Brighton Station.
August 17 Death of Baron Fitzherbert de Teissier at [7 Brunswick Terrace?] Hove.
August 30 Grand tricycle meet at Brighton.
September 4 Hove Commissioners again reject a proposal of the works committee about sea defences.
September 12 Brighton, Hove & Preston United Omnibus Company formed through amalgamation of horse bus companies.
September 26 Public opening of the York place board schools by Charles Roundell MP.
October 3 Brighton poor rate is set at 1s in the £.
October 7 Foundation stone laid for the Wesleyan chapel and schools in Dorset Gardens.
October 24 Sir Moses Montefiore attains his 100th year.
November 1 Brighton municipal elections.
November 9 Public opening of Preston Park by the mayor, Alderman A H Cox.
November 24 Opening of West Brighton Young Women’s Christian Institution.
December 4 Two fishermen are drowned off Brighton.
December 22 Frank Morris, a Brighton rate collector, is charged in the magistrates court with embezzling £344. He pleads guilty on the 29th and is remanded to the borough quarter sessions.
February 2 A town meeting opposes the Railway Rates and Charges Bill.
February 10 Consecration of the new lady chapel and transept at St Joseph’s RC Church.
February 16 Special matinee at the theatre in aid of funds for the purchase of the county cricket ground.
February 19 At a special meeting of the Brighton Town Council, a motion to request the resignation of the borough surveyor, Philip C Lockwood, is lost by eight votes after a three-hour debate.
February 26 Demonstration by anti-vaccinators at Brighton.
March 22 Heavy snowfall in Sussex.
March 30 William Gladstone visits Brighton.
March 31 Empress of Austria visits Brighton, arriving in Lord Paget’s yacht.
April 12 Closing services at the old St Luke’s Church in Brighton.
April 16 Opening of the new St Luke’s Church in Park Road West (Queen’s Park Road).
May 11 Meeting of licensed victuallers at the Corn Exchange to consider a response to the proposed increase in duty of 2s per gallon on spirits and 1s per barrel on beer.
June 18 Long and exciting meeting of Brighton Town Council includes the town clerk’s application for an increase of salary, which is approved.
June 26 William Smithers, lately assistant rate collector who absconded, committed by Brighton magistrates for trial on a charge of embezzling money belonging to the corporation.
June 29 Opening of the new Dorset Gardens Wesleyan Chapel.
August 19 Foundations tone laid for St Saviour’s Church, Ditchling Road.
September 1 Local Government Board enquiry about the cricket ground in Preston Park.
September 3 Death of Charles Catt at Brighton.
September 4 Fatal accident of man while working in a well at Smithers & Sons’ brewery in North Street.
September 17 Hove Commissioners decide to erect lamps south of Brunswick Lawns.
September 18 New schools in Circus Street are opened by Lord Monk Bretton.
September 21 Opening of the School of Science and Art in Grand Parade.
September 25 Summing up by Judge Hawkins in the Brighton bigamy case.
October 24 Verdict and sentencing in the Brighton bigamy case.
October 28 Opening of the new organ at St Luke’s Church, Brighton.
October 31 Visit of the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Louise to Brighton.
November 2 Brighton municipal elections.
November 25 At the general election, Rt Hon W T Marrott and Alderman David Smith are elected with majority of 2,148.
November 26 Meeting of working men to relieve distress in Brighton.
December 1 Fourth exhibition of canaries at the Aquarium.
December 17 Meeting of Brighton Town Council about the consolidation of borough debt.
December 30 Branch of the Brighton and Hove Dispensary opens in Lewes Road.
• Downs Crematorium Ltd is incorporated and acquires 30 acres of land to be known as the Brighton and Preston Cemetery.
January 1 Telegrams arrive in Brighton stating that Bishop Hannington was ordered to be executed by an African chief.
January 12 Disorderly meeting of Brighton ratepayers opposing the consolidation of borough debt, thus deciding that a poll of inhabitants should be conducted.
January 27 Disorderly meeting at Brighton town hall when a few malcontents deprecate the method of distributing soup.
February 2 A meeting of Brighton inhabitants requests the mayor to open a relief fund for the alleviation of distress in the town.
February 4 The King’s Road improvement question is first mooted by Brighton Town Council.
February 7 Final edition of Brighton and Sussex Evening [formerly Daily] Post.
February 9 Confirmatory telegrams reach Brighton of the assassination of Bishop Hannington.
February 19 Authoritative corroboration of the murder of Bishop Hannington.
March 15 Piano recital in Brighton by Vladimir de Pachmann.
March 17 James Longley’s tender of £17,784 for the King’s Road improvements is accepted.
March 21 Serious fire at Preston barracks.
March 30 Excited discussion at Brighton and Preston School Board about technical education at York Place School.
March 31 Local Government Board inquiry into the erection of public baths in Park Street,
April 6 Brighton and Preston School Board decides by a majority of one vote to develop the existing means of education at York Place School.
April 12 A meeting of Hove ratepayers decides almost unanimously in favour of purchasing a recreation ground.
May 19 Herbert Erredge, editor of the Brighton Gazette dies.
June 22 At The Dome, the Prince of Wales performs the ceremony of installing his brother, the Duke of Connaught, as Prev grand master of the Sussex Freemasons.
July 1 Dental hospital opens in Brighton.
July 2 The first contested election takes place. Alderman David Smith and W T Marriott, conservatives are elected.
July 26 Indignation meeting at the town hall about the proposed formation of the Brighton Cab Company.
August 9 W T Marriott MP is appointed advocate general in the Conservative government.
August 10-14 British Medication Association congress in Brighton.
August 11 W T Marriott is unopposed in the by-election.
August 15 Memorial tablet at St Martin’s Church unveiled in memory of members of the 5th Lancers who fell in the Egyptian campaign.
August 18 Dr C R Crane of Brighton is assessed for £50 damages for breach of promise of marriage.
August 20 A lad named Goldie dies when he falls from the top of an omnibus in North Street.
September 16 Hove Commissioners decide to buy 20 acres of land for recreation purposes.
September 30 At a special meeting of Brighton Town Council power is given to the Corporation to create stock to be issued to an amount not exceeding £485,000.
October 13 Baroness Abinger dies.
October 15 A heavy gale does considerable damage to Brighton foreshore.
October 19 Brighton Town Council issues £485,000 of 3 ½ per cent stock, allotted at the London and Westminster Banks.
November 1 A public meeting in Hove decides to open subscriptions for the erection of a new parish church.
November 3 Alderman David Smith MP dies.
November 9 Alderman E J Reeves is elected mayor of the Brighton for the third consecutive year.
November 29 In the by-election to replace David Smith, Dr William Tindall Robertson is elected unopposed.
December 8 Another severe gale in Brighton.
December 29 A special Court of Governors at Sussex County Hospital decided by a majority of 40 votes to reject henceforth all cases or fever or measles.
January 5 Brighton Town Council resolves to spend £12,00 on four concrete groynes on the seafront.
January 6 Disgraceful scenes at Brighton Town Council; the press and public are excluded.
January 15 Brighton fishermen enter a protest against the four proposed groynes.
February 3 Brighton Town Council amends its decision and will build only three groynes to the east of the pier.
February 15 A Brighton inhabitants meeting decides to establish a free lending library as a permanent local memorial of the Queen’s jubilee.
February 16 A Radical Reform Club is founded in Brighton.
February 23 General Booth addresses a large audience at the Congress Hall.
February 26 A public meeting in Hove proposes to contribute to the building fund of the western branch of the Brighton and Hove Dispensary to mark the Queen’s jubilee.
March 17 The Town Council desires that all the old public footpaths in Brighton should be paved.
May 12 Opening of the cricket ground at Preston Park.
May 26 The Brighton Music Hall Company is wound up.
May 30 The cycling track at Preston Park is opened.
June 1 The mail coach service between London and Brighton is inaugurated.
June 15 St Bartholomew’s Church is consecrated by the Bishop of Chichester.
July 2 Great drought experiences=d across the country.; it continues until 16 August.
July 15 The Duke of Connaught consecrates the West of Sussex freemasonry lodge at Brighton.
July 18 French Protestant Church opens.
August 20 Rev J J Hannah is instituted to the vacant stall of Hove Eclesia.
September 1 The Dyke Railway opens. It has taken four years to build.
September 11 Additions to the chancel screen in St Nicholas’ Church are unveiled.
September 14 Brighton coal duties are abolished.
September 16 Brighton Municipal Association is formed.
September 20 For the fifth consecutive year Mr Ginnett is refused a licence for his circus.
October 2 Re-opening of the organ at All Saints’ Church.
October 6 Brighton Corporation refused to allow Magnus Volk to change the site of the electric railway.
October 29 Brighton Theatre licence is renewed.
November 1 Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharajah of Baroda arrives in Brighton.
November 12 Christ Church re-opens.
November 16 Rev J J Hannah formally resigns his position as Vicar of Brighton.
November 23 The Gaikwar of Baroda holds his first reception at 29 Adelaide Crescent.
December 9 Demonstrations of the unemployed in Brighton.
December 15 Brighton Town Council decides to make a preliminary outlay of £6,000 to improve the water supply at Patcham.
January 7 Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharajah of Baroda leaves Brighton.
January 13 Break-up a week’s dense fog in Brighton and neighbourhood.
January 15 Prebendary J J Hannah details his scheme for altering and improving the parish church in a sermon at St Peter’s.
January 20 Foundations tone of Mr Willing’s Jubilee Clock is laid.
February 2 The free lending library scheme receives a fresh start.
February 14 A new lifeboat is launched at Brighton.
February 16 The Corporation decides to enlarge the town hall at a cost of £20,000.
February 17 Snow blocks the Dyke Railway.
March 3 Death of Dr Taaffe.
March 14 A Brighton woman is charged at Greenwich with the murder of her twins; the case is adjourned.
March 29 Brighton Town Council adopts a free lending library scheme.
April 6 Intelligence received that Brighton is to be made a county [borough].
April 16 Pablo de Sarasate recital at The Dome.
April 27 Madeira Road improvements are foreshadowed in a small meeting of ratepayers.
May 3 Brighton Town Council decides to improve Madeira Road.
May 16 Brighton Equitable Co-operative Society opens a shop in North Road.
May 22 Fatal accident to Alderman B Bennett at his monumental works.
May 29 Somers Clarke retired=s from the office of solicitor to the Brighton Guardians.
June 1 Death of Archdeacon Hannah.
July 20 Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Bill passes its final stage.
August 3 Brighton Town Council adopts a scheme for a free lending library.
August 16 Brighton Corporation decides to purchase the interest of the Crown in the foreshore.
September 20 Brighton Town Council decides to improve Madeira Road at an estimated cost of £14,000.
September 28 The Alhambra is refused a licence at the adjourned Sessions.
October 1 The Queen’s Park estate is put up for auction but withdrawn.
October 13 Hove Commissioners decide to extend the Medina Esplanade at a cost of £6,000.
October 18 Purchase of the race course is completed and the Race Stand Trustees donate it to the town.
October 29 Alhambra Opera House and Music Hall, designed by Frank Matcham, opens at 85 King’s Road.
November 1 Brighton municipal elections: eight new members are elected.
November 6 Governors of the Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary. Decide to make each patient pay a nominal registration fee.
November 9 Alderman Sendall elected mayor of Brighton..
November 12 Charles Wyndham at the Theatre Royal.
November 22 Continental Restaurant suffers a destructive fire.
December 3 A new dispensary opens in Hove.
December 6 Brighton Town Council decides to appoint Philip Lockwood consulting engineer on his retirement from the post of borough surveyor.
December 10 Death of Lawrence Peel.
December 10 The new Pullman vestibule train is first run on the Brighton line.
December Brighton Corporation advertises for a borough surveyor to replace Philip Lockwood at a salary of £500. The successful candidate is Francis May.
January 1 The Hove Arbitration Scheme with regard to the County Council contest is annulled.
January 3 Brighton’s sanitary committee is instructed to draft a report on the Artisans’ Dwellings Act.
January 4 Death of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.
January 16 Local Government Board inquiry at Brighton town hall into the proposal to borrow £7,000 for street improvements and enlarging the market.
February 7 G R Andrews is appointed Brighton borough surveyor.
February 8 A ratepayers’ association is formed in Hove.
February 9 Brighton Theatre is formed into a limited liability company.
February 9 Irish Home Rule demonstration at The Dome.
February 11 Brighton branch of the National Association for the Protection of Children is formed.
February 12 Edison’s perfected phonograph is exhibited at the Pavilion.
February 13 Brighton Grand Hotel company declares a half-yearly dividend of 12 per cent.
February 23 Hove Commissioners receive a deputation of ratepayers to discuss the question of amalgamation and decide to make no overtures with Brighton until a town poll has been taken.
March 7 Brighton Town Council agrees to receive a deputation from Hove to discuss the question of amalgamation.
March 8 A barque ashore off Brighton.
March 8 Formation of a new board for the University Local Examinations.
March 15 Sale of the wreck off Brighton.
March 21 Brighton Town Council decides to increase the size of the police force by 12 constables.
March 25 Philip Lockwood retires as borough surveyor and is replaced by G R Andrews.
March 29 The Vestry gives consent to the plans for enlarging the parish church.
April 1 Brighton becomes a county borough. The mayor hosts a banquet.
April 1 Brighton loses to Preston North End at home.
April 12 Board of Trade inquiry into electric lighting in Brighton.
April 16 Bernhard Stavenhagen gives a piano recital at the Pavilion.
April 18 J W Howlett is re-elected chairman of Hove Commisioners.
April 18 Lord Sheffield withdraws his annual subscription from the Sussex County Cricket Club because of libelous anonymous letters he has received.
April 25 The foundation stone is laid for the new Hove Parish Church.
May 2 The Aquarium is granted a dramatic licence.
May 3 Negotiations for the purchase of Queen’s Park as a recreation ground fall through.
May 14 John Badcock dies at Kennington.
May 16 The scheme to enlarge the town hall by extending the building to the east is overthrown by a large majority in the Council.
May 17 The prospectus is issued for a new Regency Theatre Company.
May 21 Plans are adopted for a new board school in Rugby Road as a cost of £8,900.
May 26 Disposal of the late Capt Hill’s collection of pictures.
May 30 Shocks of an earthquake are felt in Brighton and vicinity.
May 31 The corporation nurseries open to the public.
May 31 Brighton Electric Lighting Company’s application to extend operations in Brighton is refused by the Board of Trade.
June 25 Funeral of George Gallard in Hove.
June 25 Brighton Guardians decide to extend Warren Farm Schools at an estimated cost of £4,500.
July 11 Hove Commissioners accept the resignation of Dr W Kebbell, s=tendered on grounds of inadequate salary.
July 15 A workman is killed at Hallett & Abbey’s brewery by an overhead electric wire.
July 18 Brighton Town Council postpones the question of providing a new abattoir until after the November elections.
July 23 Brighton Guardians refuse an application to an increase in salary from the chaplain of Warren Farm Schools.
July 24 LB&SCR is quashed by an overwhelming majority against cheap traffic on Sundays.
July 26 The Shah of Persia visits Brighton; he is feted at the Pavilion next day and leaves on the 29th.
July 31 Brighton Town Council decides to arrange a band and choral contest in Brighton.
August 6 Brighton Extramural Cemetery Company agrees to a means of communication between the Brighton cemeteries.
August 17 Philip Lockwood is presented with a handsome address and a purse of £425 on his retirement as borough surveyor.
August 20 Wandering musicians are fined for obstruction on Brighton beach.
September 4 Rev J G Gregory is rebuked by the bishop for allowing indecorous language at a public meeting.
September 5 G R Andrews resigns as borough surveyor after six months in the job; he has accepted a post elsewhere at a higher salary of £1,200 a year.
September 7 Brighton Town Council agrees to increase the annual salary of the corporation gardener, G Ward, from £175 to £200 and thereafter by £10 a year for the next five years.
September 12 Mr E S Medcalf is appointed medical officer of health for Hove.
September 24 Brighton School Board begins a crusade on juvenile gambling houses.
October 1 Brighton Sewers Board dismisses its contractor from the works at Portobello on grounds of insolvency.
October 6 Tragic death of Sir Tindal Robertson MP.
October 16 The free lending library is opened by the mayor, Alderman Sendall.
October 24 A police constable is stabbed in a ‘slight election riot’ outside the Constitutional Club in Preston.
October 25 Gerald Loder is elected MP for Brighton by a majority of 2, 507 votes over Sir Robert Peel.
October 28 Corner stone of the extension to the parish church is laid by the Bishop of Chichester.
November 8 Opening of a new board school at Queen’s Park.
November 30 Gerald Loder MP is initiated as a freemason.
December 3 Brighton Guardians unanimously agree to admit alien children to Warren Farm.
December 5 Brighton Town Council defers indefinitely a proposition to adopt the provisions of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act.
December 19 Brighton Town Council urges the Brighton Gas Company to raise the standard of gas from 14 to 16 footcandles as soon as possible, without increasing the r=price.
December 20 Death of Wiliam Stroudley.
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