Calendar of Literary Facts
1869
- The American transcontinental railroad is completed with the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah
- Robert Browning publishes The Ring and the Book
- Stephané Mallarmé publishes Herodiade (Herodias)
- George Copway dies
- Confucius’s The Lun Yu; Being Utterances of Kung Tzu, Known to the Western World as Confucius is published in English
- Mark Twain publishes The Innocents Abroad
- Bret Harte publishes The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti publishes Poems
- Hsadullah Khan Ghalib dies
- The Suez Canal opens for shipping
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born (October 2)
- Edwin Arlington Robinson is born (December 22)
- André Gide is born (November 22)
- Alphonse de Lamartine dies (February 28)
- Booth Tarkington is born (July 29)
- Stephen Leacock is born (December 30)
