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* The [[Pitcairn Islands]] become a [[Crown colony]] of the United Kingdom, and women there are the first in the world to be granted and maintain [[women's suffrage]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/world-suffrage-timeline|title=World suffrage timeline – women and the vote|publisher=New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage}}</ref>
* [[Sylvain Charles Valée]] founds [[Skikda]], [[Algeria]].<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/8816/ |title = Philippeville, Algeria |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1899 |access-date = 2013-09-26 }}</ref>
* [[Protein]]s are discovered by [[Gerardus Johannes Mulder]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=G. J.|last=Mulder|journal=Natuur- en Scheikundig Archief|volume=6|title=Over Proteine en hare Verbindingen en Ontledingsproducten|year=1838|pages=87–162}}</ref> and named by [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Origin of the Word Protein|first=Hubert Bradford|last=Vickery|journal=Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine|pages=387–93|volume=22|year=1950|pmc=2598953|pmid=15413335|issue=5}}</ref>
* [[Friedrich Bessel]] makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a [[star]].
* [[Biblical criticism]]: [[Christian Hermann Weisse]] proposes the [[two-source hypothesis]].
* [[Duke University]] is established in [[North Carolina]].
* The 5th century BC bronze [[Chatsworth Head]] is acquired by the [[William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire|6th Duke of Devonshire]] at [[Smyrna]], from [[Henry Perigal Borrell|H. P. Borrell]].