Biology
- January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
- March 26 - Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park) established by Gerald Durrell.
- August 8 - Min Chueh Chang reports the first mammals, a litter of rabbits, grown from ova having undergone in vitro fertilisation and transferred to a surrogate mother.
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