22 January – French political exile Emmanuel Barthélemy is hanged after being convicted of murdering a London man. Barthélemy had previously killed a fellow Frenchman in the last fatal duel in England, but had only been convicted of manslaughter on that occasion.
8 February – the Devil's Footprints, a series of mysteriously hoof-like marks, appear in the snow in Devon and continue throughout the countryside for over 100 miles (160km).
19 February – bread riots in Liverpool break out.[1]
4 July – Thomas Cook escorts his first party of excursionists to tour the European continent, travelling via Belgium and enabling the tourists to visit the Exposition Universelle in Paris.[7]
18 August – Queen Victoria, with Prince Albert, begins a 10-day state visit to Paris,[8] the first visit of a reigning British monarch to France since 1413. While there, she visits the Exposition Universelle.[7]
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