18 December — the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg hosted the premiere of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker”.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky publishes the book “A Controlled Metal Aerostat”.
Pavel Tretyakov donates his gallery to the Moscow City Duma.
Russian scientist Dmitry Ivanovsky delivers a report at the Russian Academy of Sciences on the existence of viruses. Ivanovsky discovered accumulations of viruses while studying tobacco diseases.
In Georgia, USA, the Coca-Cola company is founded.