- Gladstone publishes his pamphlet - 'The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation'
- Death of Henry Arthur Woodgate.
- Marriage of Mary Monica Hope-Scott to the Hon. Joseph Maxwell.
- Publication of Tracts Theological and Ecclesiastical.
| - End of the 3rd Anglo-Ashanti war.
- Birth of future prime minister Winston Churchill.
- Factory Act passed establishing a 56 hour working week and banning the use of children as chimney sweeps.
- Public Worship Regulation Act prohibits ritualistic worship in the church of England.
- Benjamin Disraeli begins his second term as Prime Minister.
| - Birth of composer Gustav Holst.
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