The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
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Isaac Newton's calculations and theories based on Kepler's laws were read to the Royal Society in London.
Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.