Calendar of Literary Facts
1876
- The Russo-Turkish War is fought
- Nikolaus Otto invents the modern internal-combustion engine in Germany
- George Eliot publishes Daniel Deronda
- George Armstrong Custer and his unit of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry are killed to the last man at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana
- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
- Stephané Mallarmé publishes L’apres-midi d’un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun)
- Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Emile Zola publishes L’Assommoir
- George Sand dies (June 9)
- Jack London is born (January 12)
- Sherwood Anderson is born (September 13)
- Orestes Brownson dies (April 17)
- Gertrude Bonnin is born (February 22)
