4 February – The National Association for Employment of Reserve and Discharged Soldiers (modern-day RFEA – The Forces Employment Charity) is set up to help ex-military personnel find civilian jobs.
26 February – The Berlin Conference concludes with the major European powers including the United Kingdom establishing their spheres of influence in the "scramble for Africa".[2]
26 March – First legal cremation in England: widowed painter Jeanette Pickersgill of London, "well known in literary and scientific circles",[4] is cremated by the Cremation Society at Woking Crematorium in Surrey.
August – National Vigilance Association established "for the enforcement and improvement of the laws for the repression of criminal vice and public immorality".[8]
12 September
Bury F.C., formed in a meeting between the Bury Wesleyans and Bury Unitarians Football Clubs, play at Gigg Lane for the first time, beating a Wigan team 4–3.
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