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| 1661 || {{w|Air pollution}} || Literature || {{w|Charles II of England}} commands writer {{w|John Evelyn}} of the {{w|Royal Society}} to publish ''Fumifugium; or the Inconvenience of the Air and Smoke dissipated''; together with ''Some Remedies Humbly Proposed''<ref name="History of Air Pollution"/> ||
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| 1681 || General || Policy || The {{w|English Tort Law}} develops as a law concerning the compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or their reputations. In a case happening in the year, a judge determines: “The law does not so much concern itself with the intent of the actor as with the loss and damage of the party suffering.”<ref name="Drake">{{cite web |last1=Drake |first1=Ian J. |title=The tort revolution: product liability and the rule of courts |url=https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/10809/Drake_umd_0117E_11456.pdf?sequence=1 |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1793 || {{w|Water pollution}} || Crisis || The {{w|1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic}} occurs. After the crisis, {{w|Benjamin Franklin}} petitions to manage waste and to remove tanneries for clean air as a public “right”.<ref name="A Brief History of Environmentalism"/> || {{w|United States}}
| 1862 || {{w|Air pollution}} || Research || Irish physicist {{w|John Tyndall}} discovers that certain gases (water and {{w|carbon dioxide}}) help trap heat from escaping the {{w|atmosphere}}.<ref name="Why we know about the greenhouse gas effect"/> || {{w|Ireland}}
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| 1868 || General || Policy || {{w|Rylands v Fletcher}} is introduced in {{w|England}} as a new area of {{w|English tort law}}. The new rule defines strict liability for landowners for damage caused by dangerous substances which escapes from their land and damages others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Duhaime's Law Dictionary |url=http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/R/RylandsvFletchertheRulein.aspx |website=duhaime.org |accessdate=30 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1874 || General || Literature || British political economist {{w|Henry Sidgwick publishes Methods of Ethics, a classical utilitarian volume which analizes {{w|externality}}-related problems with the system of natural liberty and the effects of self-interested behavior.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Medema |first1=Steven G. |title=The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ZZwUD0mONmsC&pg=PA42&dq=%22Henry+Sidgwick%22+%22externality%22+%22in+1800..1980%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW6uyx387jAhXRsJ4KHcmeDWkQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20Sidgwick%22%20%22externality%22%20%22in%201800..1980%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
