Calendar of Literary Facts
1864
- Frances Margaret Taylor and Peter Gallwey, S.J. found the Catholic periodical The Month in London
- The International Red Cross is founded
- Louis Pasteur invents the process of pasteurization
- James Madison Bell publishes The Day and the War
- Stéphen Mallarmé publishes Le Parnasse contemporain
- Nathaniel Hawthorne dies (May 19)
- John Clare dies (May 20)
- Frank Wedekind is born (July 24)
- Miguel de Unamuno is born (September 29)
