Chemistry
- November 26 - Charles Hatchett announces to the Royal Society his discovery of the chemical element niobium, which he calls "columbium", in the ore columbite (it is renamed in 1950).
- Vanadium, a transition metal, is discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río in Mexico.
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