Events
- Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
- Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
- Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.
- A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).
- Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
- John Addington Symonds the younger marries Janet Catherine North.
- James Payn publishes his most popular story, Lost Sir Massingberd, in Chambers's Journal.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)