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Birthdays
- Julián Aguirre ()
- Juventino Rosas ()
- Morris Baer ()
- Vittorio Monti (6 January)
- Lodewijk Mortelmans (5 February)
- Hamish MacCunn (22 March)
- John Blackwood McEwan (13 April)
- Max von Schillings (19 April)
- José Vianna da Motta (22 April)
- Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August)
- Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (12 September)
- František Drdla (28 November)
Dying days
- Jacques Bouffil ()
- Moritz Hauptmann (3 January)
- Franz Berwald (3 April)
- Louis-François Dauprat (16 July)
- Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (27 August)
- Gioacchino Rossini (13 November)
Music events
- Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in g minor op. 13 “Winter dreams”, in Moscow, Russia. (22 January) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Premiere of Mefistofele, in Milan, Italy. (5 March) → Arrigo Enrico Boito
- Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in c minor, in Linz, Austria, with Bruckner conducting. (9 May) → Anton Bruckner
- Premiere of piano concert no. 2 in g minor op. 22, in Paris, France. (13 May) → Camille Saint-Saëns
- Premiere of Dalibor, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Smetana conducting. (16 May) → Bedrich Smetana
- Premiere of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, in Munich, Germany. (21 June) → Richard Wagner
- Premiere of La Périchole, in Paris, France. (6 October) → Jacques Offenbach
- Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in E flat major, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (23 December) → Alexander Porfir’yevich Borodin
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