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| 1861 |
| | | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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| 1865 |
| | | English surgeon Joseph Lister introduces the era of antiseptic surgery, with the use of carbolic acid in the operating theatre | |
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| 1865 |
| | | On a visit to a Washington theatre, Lincoln is assassinated in his box by John Wilkes Booth | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde has its premiere in the Munich court theatre | |
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| 1871 |
| | | English actor Henry Irving plays what becomes one of his most famous parts, that of Mathias in the melodrama The Bells | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage | |
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| 1881 |
| | | London's new Savoy Theatre is the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The theatre, still known affectionately in Richmond as Kean's, falls on hard times and is pulled down | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany) | |
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