20 May – foundation stone laid for Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, the first to be built on a new site since the 13th century.[7]
15 July – an underground firedamp explosion at Risca Colliery in the Crosskeys district of Monmouthshire kills 120 coal miners[8][9] and 69 horses.[10]
27 July – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand.
22 December – George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), novelist and woman of letters (born 1819)
31 December – John Stenhouse, Scottish chemist (born 1809)
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