1860s
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The first Salon des Refusés on May 17 1863 invited art-works rejected for display at the Paris Salon of 1863. Many consider this the birth of modern art. Absinthe becomes popular in Europe.
Literature and arts
- Artificial Paradises (1860) by Baudelaire
- Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863)
- The Birth of Venus (1863) Alexandre Cabanel
- The Painter of Modern Life (1863) by Baudelaire
- Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
- Olympia (1865) by Manet
- War and Peace (1865-69) by Leo Tolstoy
- The Origin of the World, painted by Courbet in 1866, first publicly displayed in 1995
- Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx
- Woman in the Waves (1868) Gustave Courbet
- La Danse (1869) by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- The Songs of Maldoror (1868-69) by Comte de Lautreamont
Births
- Georges Méliès (1861 - 1938)
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862 - 1931)
- Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)
- Rupert Carabin (1862 - 1952)
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)
- Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936)
- Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927)
- Paul Chabas (1869 - 1937)
See also
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