Events
- First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win.
- October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University. In the same month, he moves to Riverdale, New York.
- December 2 - the Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded.
- G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
- Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper.
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