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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

Events

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate

Works published

• Sir Richard Burton, translator, The Arabian Nights
• Henrik Ibsen, The Burial Mound
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-book (posthumous)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
• Robert Browning, Christmas Eve and Easter Day
• Leigh Hunt, Autobiography in three volumes
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel in The Gem
• Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H..
• William Wordsworth, The Prelude published several months after his death; though it failed to arouse great interest at the time, but later generally recognised as his masterpiece

Births

• January 15 - Mihai Eminescu (Romanian)
• June 27 - Ivan Vazov (Bulgarian)
• July 18 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe (US)
• August 1 - William Larminie (US)
• September 2 - Eugene Field (US)
• November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (US)
• November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)

Dates unknown:

• Albery A. Whitmann (US)
• Isabella Valency Crawford (Canada)

Deaths

• January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
• January 20 - Philip Pendleton Cooke
• April 7 - William Lisle Bowles (UK)
• April 23 - William Wordsworth (UK)
• May 23 - Margaret Fuller (US)
• May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
• August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau (Austrian)

Dates unknown:

• Manoah Bodman

See also

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