Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.
Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.
Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.
Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools (of a type already found in England) at Aurignac.
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July 15 - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (died 1946).
November 8 - Francis J. Haverfield, English Romano-British archaeologist (died 1919).
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