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| 1833 |
| | | Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery | |
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| 1845 |
| | | US author Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an early and thoughtful feminist study of women's place in society | |
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| c. 1864 |
| | | Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents to the Royal Society his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics, now known collectively as Maxwell's Equations | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Gregor Mendel reads a paper to the Natural History Society in Brno describing his discoveries in the field of genetics | |
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| 1866 |
| | | The Argentine Rural Society is founded as the exclusive preserve of Argentina's oligarchy | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Dmitry Mendeleyev reads to the Russian Chemical Society in St Petersburg his formulation of the periodic table | |
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| 1869 |
| | | English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy, an influential collection of essays about contemporary society | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Madame Blavatsky founds in New York the Theosophical Society, preaching universal brotherhood with a strong dash of mysticism | |
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| 1884 |
| | | English socialists, including Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb, found the Fabian Society as part of a long-term political strategy | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The newly founded Fabian Society publishes Manifesto by George Bernard Shaw | |
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