Calendar of Literary Facts
1867
- The Second Reform Act is passed by both houses of Britain’s Parliament, further enlarging the franchise
- Mark Twain publishes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches
- The French depart Mexico, and Maximilian is executed
- The U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia
- The Dominion of Canada is established
- The dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary is formed
- Naturalism flourishes as a literary movement in Europe
- Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital (Capital)
- Matthew Arnold publishes New Poems, which contains “Dover Beach” and “Thyrsis”
- Sidney Lanier publishes Tiger-Lilies
- John Rollin Ridge dies (October 5)
- George William Russell (“A.E.”) is born (April 10)
- John Galsworthy is born (August 14)
- Rubén Darío is born (January 18)
- Arnold Bennett is born (May 27)
- Luigi Pirandello is born (June 28)
- Vicente Blasco Ibañez is born (January 29)
- Charles Baudelaire dies (August 31)
