Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.
Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.
Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.
Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.
April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC(?), it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Exaltation of the Flower found at Farsala in Thessaly by Léon Heuzey and Henri Daumet.
Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.
Anthropological Society of London formed
July 13 – Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (died 1963)
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