- Bishop Roskell resigned as Bishop of Nottingham and was replaced by Bishop Bagshawe.
- Death of Rev. Charles Kingsley.
- Death of Father Ambrose St John.
- Publication of a Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, as a response to Gladstone's pamphlet..
| - Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 passed, starting the process of slum clearances in cities.
- Abolition of Second Class on the railways.
- Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission.
| - Frontier outlaw Billy the Kid escapes prison and begins his fugitive life.
- Bizet's opera Carmen premieres in Paris.
- Pope Pius IX proclaims a Papal Jubilee.
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