Calendar of Literary Facts

1870

  • The Third Republic is proclaimed in France
  • Rome is named the capital of the Kingdom of Italy after French troops withdraw from the city
  • The Franco-Prussian War is fought
  • The doctrine of papal infallibility is articulated by the Vatican Council
  • John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company
  • Second phase of the Industrial Revolution begins
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich publishes The Story of a Bad Boy
  • Charles Scribner, Roswell Smith, and Josiah Gilbert Holland found Scribner’s Monthly Magazine in New York
  • Harriet E. Adams Wilson dies
  • Alexandre Dumas père dies (December 5)
  • Charles Dickens dies (June 9)
  • Ivan Bunin is born (October 10)
  • Albert Jay Nock is born (October 13)
  • H. H. Munro (“Saki”) is born (December 18)
  • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer dies (December 22)
  • Hilaire Belloc is born (July 27)