- The Catholic Truth Society is founded by Herbert Vaughan.
- The Vatican Council is convoked in June.
- Herbert Vaughan completes his purchase of The Tablet.
| - Birth of explorer Captain Scott and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
- Church Rate ceases to be a compulsory tax.
- The Pharmacy Act passed, regulating the sale of drugs and poisons.
- First Trade Union Congress held in Manchester.
- Britain discontinues penal transportation to Australia.
- Public executions banned.
- Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the first time, but loses the election that same year to William Ewart Gladstone.
| - Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women.
- The QWERTY keyboard developed.
- US President Andrew Johnson empeached, Ulysses S. Grant elected as 18th President of the United States.
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