Calendar of Literary Facts
Calendar of Literary Facts
1850
- The Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest conflict of the nineteenth century, rages in China
- Joseph Paxton designs the Crystal Palace in London
- The U.S. Congress agrees upon the Compromise of 1850
- The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act
- James, John, Joseph Wesley, and Fletcher Harper found Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in New York
- Charles Dickens founds the magazine Household Words in London
- Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter
- William Wordsworth publishes The Prelude
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson publishes In Memoriam
- Guy de Maupassant is born (August 5)
- Robert Louis Stevenson is born (November 13)
- Honoré de Balzac dies (August 19)
- Margaret Fuller dies (July 19)
- William Wordsworth dies (April 23)
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