Medicine
- January - The New England Journal of Medicine is founded in Boston, Massachusetts, by Dr John Collins Warren.
- January 21 - John Parkinson and his father James first describe appendicitis and resultant peritonitis in English.
- Benjamin Rush publishes Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind in Philadelphia, the first textbook on psychiatry issued in the United States.
- James Barry qualifies as a medical doctor at the University of Edinburgh; born Margaret Ann Bulkley, this makes her the first British woman with such a qualification.
- Cholera in Jessore, India.
- Coffee is banned in Sweden.
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