Events
- February - Ambrose Bierce joins the staff of General William Badcock Hazen.
- July 4 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing boat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow.
- November 26 - Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
- Louisa May Alcott becomes a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown, D.C.
- December 24 - William Dean Howells marries Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris.
- James Russell Lowell begins writing for The North American Review.
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky is imprisoned in St Petersburg and begins his novel What Is To Be Done?
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs begins writing about homosexuality under the pseudonym of "Numa Numantius".
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