| Events | Year |
| Thomas Jefferson sworn in for a second term / Most of Detroit destroyed by fire / Horatio Nelson dies | |
| Great Exhibition is opened in Hyde Park / New York Times is founded / Mary Shelley dies | |
| Wounded Knee massacre kills 178 / Corrugated cardboard box is invented / The Elephant Man dies | |
| Captain Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle/ Boston Tea Party occurs / William H. Harrison born | |
| Robert Walpole becomes first British Prime Minister / J.S. Bach composes the Brandenberg Concertos / Marquise de Pompadour born | |
| Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published / James Madison sworn in for a second term as US President / David Livingstone born | |
| Disney Studios begin operations / Yankee Stadium opens / Henry Kissinger born | |
| Cassius Clay wins Olympic gold medal / Ben-Hur wins eleven Oscars / Bono born | |
| Monroe Doctrine introduced / Simón Bolívar named President of Peru / Edward Jenner dies | |
| Arcade game Pong released / Bobby Fischer becomes first American chess world champion / Harry S Truman dies | |
| Dollar monetary unit introduced in USA / First crossing of the English Channel by air / Jakob Grimm born | |
| First electric streetlight is installed / First cash register is patented / Ned Kelly dies | |
| Basque Nationalist Party founded /Oscar Wilde convicted of 'sodomy and indecency' / J. Edgar Hoover born | |
| Karl Benz patents first gasoline-driven automobile / Coca-Cola invented / Chester A Arthur dies | |
| Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings / Assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson / Mark Twain born | |