Calendar of Literary Facts
1871
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer’s Rimas (The Infinite Passion) is published
- Charles Darwin publishes The Descent of Man
- The Dawes Act, also called the General Allotment Act, authorizes the giving of land to individual American Indians to discourage tribal living
- “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”: Henry Stanley and David Livingstone meet at Lake Tanganyika
- George MacDonald publishes At the Back of the North Wind
- The “Great Fire” destroys a large portion of Chicago
- Stephen Crane is born (November 1)
- Marcel Proust is born (July 10)
- J. M. Synge is born (April 16)
- Jesse Lynch Williams is born (August 17)
- James Weldon Johnson is born (June 17)
- Leonid (Nikolaevich) Andreyev is born (June 18)
- Theodore Dreiser is born (August 27)
- Paul Valéry is born (October 30)
