- George Errington overthrown as coadjutor Archbishop of Westminster
| - The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII visited America becoming the first British monarch to do so.
- Major debate on Darwin's Origin of the Species at Oxford University.
| - The American Civil War begins when Texas ceedes from the Union.
- Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States.
- Garibaldi's forces invade the Italian states.
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