The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1862 Literary Facts
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
Explore: Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Roman Fever, Edith Wharton, The significance and main theme of Edith Wharton's "The Other Two."
Henry David Thoreau dies
Explore: Walden, Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
John Kendrick Bangs is born
Duncan Campbell Scott is born
Maurice Maeterlinck is born
Explore: The Blue Bird, The Intruder, Maurice Maeterlinck
William Sydney Porter (“O. Henry”) is born
Explore: Mammon and the Archer, O. Henry, The Cop and the Anthem
Gerhart Hauptmann is born
Explore: Gerhart Hauptmann
Georges Feydeau is born
Explore: A Flea in Her Ear