- Death of Louisa Deane.
- Death of Lord Denbigh.
- Death of Fr Nicholas Darnell.
- Death of Cardinal Manning and elevation of Herbert Vaughan as 3rd Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.
| - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collection of 12 stories.
- Gladstone forms his 4th and final government.
| - Tchaikovsky's nutcracker premieres in Saint Petersburg.
- Lizzie Borden charged with the murder of her parents, but later acquitted.
- The General Electric Company formed.
- Ellis Island opened as a US immigration station.
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