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| 1865 |
| | | Palmerston dies in office, and is succeeded as leader of the Liberal government in Britain by his foreign secretary, Earl Russell | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Russell's government falls, and Lord Derby returns for the third time, but again briefly, as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Britain's new Reform Act extends the franchise to working men in British towns | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Benjamin Disraeli becomes British prime minister for the first time, at the head of a Conservative government, but only for a few months | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone becomes British prime minister, for the first of four times, and remains in office for six years | |
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| 1870 |
| | | Isaac Butt, an Irish MP at Westminster, founds the Home Rule association | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Ballot Act adds to the British electoral system the essential element of secrecy in voting | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli, at the age of 70, begins a 6-year term of office as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Benjamin Disraeli buys for Britain a controlling share in the Suez Canal, with money borrowed from Lionel Nathan de Rothschild | |
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| 1876 |
| | | William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month | |
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