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Westfield College for women was founded in North London.

The first successful pressurized aeroplane cabin was created, allowing planes to fly higher than before.

The National Union of the Working Classes was founded.

Three British annuals (the Forget-me-not, Friendship's Offering, and the Literary Souvenir) had abandoned the prototypical diary format in favour of offering literary and pictorial contents.

W. R. Greg 's essay"False Morality of Lady Novelists" was published in the National Review in London.

Alexander Bain , a Scottish inventor, patented an electrochemical recording telegraph, an early version of the facsimile machine.

Lenin struck a blow against the Russian tradition of liberal thinking by deporting from Petrograd (which was to be renamed Leningrad within a year and a half) two shiploads of soft ideological opponents, all but...

George Bedborough , secretary of the Legitimation League which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.

The Motor Cycle Racing Club was founded in England.

Elizabeth (Elsie) Blackall Knocker and Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm left for Belgium as part of the Flying Ambulance Column .

Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems for Young Ladies, dividing it into three sections: Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining.

Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion monthly users.

The Agriculture and Technical Institute (Ireland) Act enabled local authorities to levy a rate for vocational education. It was declared the Act to Facilitate the Provision of Technical Instruction.

The London Anti-Vivisection Society and the International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection were founded.

Caribbean sugar production became established among the colonists on the island of Barbados. An upper-class luxury hitherto imported from Palestine and Syria now became a popular commodity in Britain, and an engine driving...

Alfred Tennyson published Tithonus in the Cornhill Magazine.

Benjamin Britten was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to write a score demonstrating the different orchestral instruments. He created Variations on a Theme of Henry Purcell, later recorded by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

British publisher Tank Books released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.

The Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts amalgamated with other societies to form the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene .

The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between Irish Home Rulers, led by Charles Stewart Parnell , and Gladstone 's government; the agreement extended rent protection to Irish leaseholders, while Parnell agreed to cooperate with the Liberal...

Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton , was published.

The White Cross League , a chastity society founded in 1883, merged with the Anglican ChurchChurch of England Purity Society and was henceforth know as the White Cross Society.

An order was established to prevent wards of the Upper and Lower Orphanage s in India (mixed-race boys) from travelling to Britain for education.

John Webster's tragedyThe Duchess of Malfi was performed on stage; it was unpublished until 1623.