| M : | Max Christian Friedrich Bruch : Opera, Scherz, List und Rache
('Joke, Trick and Revenge')
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| M : | Giuseppe Verdi : Opera, Un Ballo in maschera
('A Masked Ball')
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| M : | Johann Strauss II : Polkas, Champagne and Tritsch-Tratsch
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| M : | Jacques Offenbach : Operetta, Orphée aux enfers
('Orpheus in the Underwold'), later revised
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| M : | Johannes Brahms : Serenade
No.1 for orchestra
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| M : | Hector Berlioz : Opera, The Trojans
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| PH : | Treaty of Tientsin ends Anglo-Chin. war |
| PH : | British proclaim peace in India |
| PH : | Prince William of Prussia declared regent for the insane King Frederick William IV |
| PH : | Alexander Karageorgevich deposed by Serbian Diet; Milos Obrenovic declared king |
| RP : | The Blessed Virgin Mary reputed to have appeared at Lourdes, France |
| RP : | Henry Carey: Principles of Social Science |
| ED : | Thomas Carlyle: Frederick the Great |
| RP : | The Paulist Fathers founded by American Catholic priest Issac Hecker |
| RP : | Lionel de Rothschild becomes first Jewish member of British Parliament |
| RP : | Philip Schaff: History of the Christian Church |
| M : | New York Symphony gives its first public concert |
| ST : | T.H. Huxley: The Theory of the Vetebrate Skulls |
| ST : | Mirror galvanometer invented |
| DL : | National Association of Baseball Players organised in America |
| DL : | Ottawa becomes capital of Canada |
| DL : | South Foreland lighthouse lit by electricity |
| M : | Giacomo Puccini dies 29 November |
| M : | Giacomo Puccini born 23 December |
