Rowing
The Boat Race
- 3 April — Oxford wins the 11th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, a revival of the race last contested in 1849
Other events
- 3 August — inaugural Harvard-Yale Regatta, a 2-length win for Harvard in a single eight-oar, two-mile race on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
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