February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated
Donner Party (California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter; some have resorted to survival by cannibalism).
April 25 – The
Exmouth, carrying Irish emigrants from
Derry bound for
Quebec, is wrecked off
Islay, with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[2][3]
June – E. H. Booth & Co. Ltd, which becomes the northern England supermarket chain
Booths, is founded when tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth, 19, opens a shop called "The China House" in
Blackpool.
August –
Yale Corporation establishes the first graduate school in the United States, as Department of Philosophy and the Arts (renamed Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in
1892).
November 17 – The Battle of Um Swayya Spring takes place near a spring in Qatar, after a Bahraini force under Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Deputy Ruler of Bahrain defeats the Al Binali tribe. The chief of the Al Binali, Isa bin Tureef, is slain in battle with over 70 fatalities from his side.
^First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, November 12.
February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated
Donner Party (California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter; some have resorted to survival by cannibalism).
April 25 – The
Exmouth, carrying Irish emigrants from
Derry bound for
Quebec, is wrecked off
Islay, with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[2][3]
June – E. H. Booth & Co. Ltd, which becomes the northern England supermarket chain
Booths, is founded when tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth, 19, opens a shop called "The China House" in
Blackpool.
August –
Yale Corporation establishes the first graduate school in the United States, as Department of Philosophy and the Arts (renamed Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in
1892).
November 17 – The Battle of Um Swayya Spring takes place near a spring in Qatar, after a Bahraini force under Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Deputy Ruler of Bahrain defeats the Al Binali tribe. The chief of the Al Binali, Isa bin Tureef, is slain in battle with over 70 fatalities from his side.
^First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, November 12.