22 June – the South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London;[5] it is the world’s first museum to incorporate a refreshment room.[6]
29 November – Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini leaves exile in London to make an assassination attempt on Emperor Napoleon III of France in Paris.
31 December – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.
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