Major Events
- Jan 1 1st US public bath opens in New York City
- Jan 1 National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
- Jan 1 Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
- Jan 3 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
- Jan 17 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
- Feb 2 1st British public men's toilet opens in Fleet St, London
- Feb 2 Alexandre Dumas Jr's play, an adaptation of his novel "La Dame aux Camélias" premieres in Paris
- Feb 5 The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg first opens to the public with Catherine the Great's collection of 4,000 paintings forming its core collection
- Feb 11 First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street, London)
- Feb 15 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
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- Dec 30 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)