1st Januar : Nioro is taen aff bi the colonel Louis Archinard efter that Ahmadou (an Ahmadou's airmy) gangs awa' in Macina an Jenne. (In Mali an Niger).
Februar: the Netherlands and the Unitit Kinrick separe their possessions in the West Dutch Indies.
Eugène Dubois maks the first discovery o Homo erectus fossils in the Dutch colony o Java. (See Anthropology).
18 April : Jules Cambon is Governor o Algeria (til 1897). He applees a mair-leeberal policy, wi the thocht o a speed economic development.
June 16 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
31st Julie : Unitit Kinrick say that territories atweesh Zambeeze an Congo river are belongin tae thaim.
On 28 September is Herman Melville born. He is the author o Moby-Dick.