Calendar of Literary Facts
1860
- George Eliot publishes The Mill on the Floss
- Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States; South Carolina secedes from the Union
- George M. Smith and William Makepeace Thackeray found The Cornhill Magazine in London
- George Augustus Sala founds the magazine Temple Bar in London
- J. M. Barrie is born (May 9)
- Anton Chekhov is born (January 17)
