The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.

The Jardin des Plantes, also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France. Jardin des Plantes is the official name in the present day, but it is in fact an elliptical form of Jardin Royal des Plantes Médicinales, which is related to the original purpose of the garden back in the 17th century.

A zoo is a facility where animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.