- Bishop Ullathorne hopes to re-ignite the Oxford scheme.
- Herbert Vaughan establishes the Mill Hill Missionaries.
- Publication of 'A Letter to Pusey on his Eirenicon'.
| - Birth of authors Beatrix Potter and H.G. Wells, archaeologist Lord Carnarvon, car designer Herbert Austin, and future prime minister Ramsey MacDonald
- Resignation of Lord Russell as prime minister.
- Formation of the first London Fire Brigade.
- The Cholera epidemic sweeps through London.
| - The SS Great Britain sucessfully lays the transatlantic telegraph cable.
- US Civil Rights Act passed.
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