- Mgr Capel removed as rector of the Catholic University, Kensington amid allegations of financial irregularities.
- Restoration of the Scottish Catholic Hierarchy.
- Newman offered elevation to Cardinal in April.
| - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone to Queen Victoria.
- The first moving images captured on camera.
- Gilbert & Sullivan premiere their comic opera HMS Pinafore.
| - Start of the Lincoln County War.
- Greece declares war on Turkey.
- Death of Pope Pius IX after more than 31 years in the Papacy, succeeded by Pius IX.
- 2nd Anglo-Afghan War begins.
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