Calendar of Literary Facts

1832

  • The First Reform Act is passed by both houses of Britain’s Parliament, securing a marginally enlarged franchise
  • A massive cholera epidemic develops in Russia and spreads into Central Europe
  • Great Britain occupies the Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina
  • Troops under Mehemet Ali, Viceroy of Egpt, defeat Ottoman Turkish forces in Syria
  • Alfred de Vigny publishes Stello: Les consultations du Doctor-Noir (Stello: A Session with Doctor Noir)
  • John Richardson publishes Wacousta, or The Prophecy
  • George Sand publishes Indiana
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is born (December 8)
  • Horatio Alger, Jr. is born (January 13)
  • José Echegaray is born (April 19)
  • Sir Walter Scott dies (September 21)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies (March 22)
  • Louisa May Alcott is born (November 29)