Calendar of Literary Facts
Literary Facts - 1862
- George Meredith publishes “Modern Love” and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads
- Friedrich Hebbel’sDie Nibelungen: Ein deutsches Trauerspiel in drei Abtheilungen (The Nieblungs: A Tragedy in Three Acts) is produced
- Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables
- Christina Rossetti publishes Goblin Market and Other Poems
- U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia duel for four inconclusive hours at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in the first battle between ironclad warships
- Lion Foucault calculates the speed of light
- Richard Gatling develops and patents a working machine gun in the U.S.
- Edith Newbold Jones (Wharton) is born (January 24)
- Henry David Thoreau dies (May 6)
- John Kendrick Bangs is born (May 27)
- Duncan Campbell Scott is born (August 2)
- Maurice Maeterlinck is born (August 29)
- William Sydney Porter (“O. Henry”) is born (September 11)
- Gerhart Hauptmann is born (November 15)
- Georges Feydeau is born (December 8)
