Events[]
June[]
- ? - Mabel Tolkien and her sister May Incledon are received into the Church of Rome, bringing about the wrath and opposition of their strongly Baptist relatives.
August[]
- 25 - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, whose works have been compared to those of J.R.R. Tolkien in scholarly articles, dies.
September[]
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien is admitted into King Edward's School after passing the entrance exam.
- ? - The Tolkiens move from Sarehole to Moseley to be closer to Birmingham and King Edward's School.