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| 1875 |
| | | Charles Stewart Parnell takes his seat in the House of Commons at Westminster and immediately adds zest to the campaign for Home Rule | |
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| 1875 |
| | | William Crookes invents the radiometer, in which light causes four vanes to rotate in a bulb containing gas at low pressure | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Leo Tolstoy publishes the first volume of his novel Anna Karenina, in which the heroine develops a fatal love for Count Vronsky | |
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| 1875 |
| | | After spending much time in Europe in recent years, Henry James moves there permanently and settles first in Paris | |
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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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| 1875 |
| | | Congress passes a Civil Rights Act outlawing segration in the USA on public transport and in hotels and restaurants | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Nikolai Przewalski discovers in western Mongolia a surviving example of the wild breed from which the horse was domesticated | |
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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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| 1875 |
| | | Andrew Carnegie's new steel mill near Pittsburgh prospers through automation, new technology and non-union labour | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Mary Baker Eddy expounds her beliefs in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, later considered the textbook of Christian Science | |
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