Ruins of Great Zimbabwe rediscovered by Adam Renders.
Oluf Rygh excavates the Tune ship in Norway.
Excavations at Bibracte begun by Gabriel Bulliot (continue to 1907).
September - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox undertakes his first excavation, at Cissbury Ring hill fort in West Sussex.
George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC., the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.
The (full) Speyer wine bottle is found in the excavation of a mid-4th century Roman tomb near Speyer in Germany.
The Armazi stele of Vespasian is found in Armazi, Georgia.
13 May - Thomas Gann, Anglo Irish explorer and archaeologist of the Maya civilization (d. 1938)
August 3 - August Böckh, German classical scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
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