4 July – Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published by Macmillan in London for Daresbury-born Oxford don Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Carroll),[1][4] three years after it was first narrated to Alice Liddell and her sisters. He and his illustrator, John Tenniel, withdraw this edition from UK distribution[6] and the first trade editions are published on 26 November and released in December (dated 1866).
September – John Henry Walsh (writing as 'Stonehenge' in the magazine The Field) gives the first definition of a dog breed standard (for the pointer) based on physical form.[8]
11 November – Duar War with Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.[1]
16 December – Edward John Eyre, governor of Jamaica, dismissed and censured for his excessive actions during the suppression of the recent rebellion.[4]
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Legal case of St Helen's Smelting Co v Tipping decided in the House of Lords: a landowner is entitled to recover damages for harm done to his trees by fumes from a copper smelter.[9]
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^Galton, Francis (1865). "Hereditary talent and character" (PDF). Macmillan's Magazine. 12: 157–166, 318–327. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 June 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
^Bradley, Ian (1989). The Book of Hymns. New York: Testament Books. p. 333.
^ abcdePalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 286. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ abcPenguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^"The Works of Charles Dodgson: Alice". The Lewis Carroll Society. 20 September 2014. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
^"Time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 15 June 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
^"Forgotten Women: Edith Cavell, the war hero nurse who became a spy". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2018.