1860s

Haussmann’s decree of 29 September fixes rectilinear, uniform façades on the new streets around the Opéra — the frontage the grand hotel needs to exist

The Satow family takes Hiiragiya in Kyoto

The Beau-Rivage opens at Ouchy, Lausanne

Le Grand Hôtel is inaugurated by Empress Eugénie on 5 May with 800 rooms and 45 salons, built in fourteen months; Café de la Paix opens with it on 30 June

Louis-Ernest Ladurée opens on rue Royale; Jeanne Souchard later invents the tea room

Le Grand Hôtel opens beside the Paris Opéra, built for the Second Empire

François Blanc takes over the Monte-Carlo casino concession

Société des Bains de Mer created by sovereign order of Charles III on 2 February

The Casino de Monte-Carlo opens on 1 June on the Plateau des Spélugues

The Arts Club founded on Dover Street by Dickens, Trollope and Lord Leighton

The Excelsior Hotel Ernst opens in Cologne facing the cathedral

Princess Caroline brings the Blancs to Monaco and writes the rule barring Monégasques from the gaming rooms

The Austrian Pilgrim Hospice opens on the Via Dolorosa; it is still a working pilgrim guesthouse

A guesthouse called the Oriental is recorded on the Chao Phraya, run by two Americans

The Galle Face opens at Colombo — among the oldest hotels east of Suez

Marie Blanc builds the Hôtel de Paris with her husband, and is named a co-founder in the company record

Yakov Pegov and the French cook Lucien Olivier open the Hermitage — a restaurant, a hotel and a bathhouse in one complex, and the room in which the salad was invented

The Hôtel de Paris opens in Monte-Carlo, built by the Société des Bains de Mer

The Victoria opens at Interlaken; it merges with the Jungfrau in 1899

Jules Jaluzot opens Printemps on the boulevard Haussmann

Fire destroys seventy buildings along the Bangkok riverfront, including the Oriental

The Langham opens as the largest and most modern hotel in London

The Langham opens as the largest and most modern hotel in London

The Beau-Rivage opens on the Geneva lakefront

Villa Cora is built in Florence for Baron Oppenheim

Eduard Sacher opens a delicatessen behind the Kärntnertor theatre, the beginning of the Sacher business

The Sacher opens at Salzburg on the Salzach

The Hongkong Hotel Company is founded; it becomes The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels in 1923

The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels is incorporated — sixty-two years before the Peninsula opens

The Amstel opens in Amsterdam on the river

The Quellenhof opens at Bad Ragaz above the Tamina gorge

Watson’s opens in Bombay, cast iron and closed to Indians

The Suez Canal opens in November, and Thomas Cook runs his first Nile steamers Cairo to Aswan at a fixed price — the package tour is proved in Egypt

Khedive Ismail builds the Gezira Palace to receive the guests of the Suez Canal opening

Hippolyte de Villemessant of Le Figaro builds the Villa Soleil at Cap d'Antibes as a retreat for writers