Calendar of Literary Facts
1853
- Charles Dickens publishes Bleak House
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell publishes Cranford
- George Palmer Putnam founds Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in New York
- Samual Colt develops the Colt pistol
- The Crimean War is waged between Russia and the allied forces of Great Britain, France, and Turkey
- José Martí is born (January 28)
