1863
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"Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793-1881) followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name and title of nobility, as it happened with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon. In 1818, his best known work, Dictionnaire Infernal, was published. In 1863, sixty-nine illustrations by Louis Le Breton were added that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons."--Sholem Stein |
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1863 is a year of the 1860s.
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Art and culture
- Paris Salon of 1863
- Le déjeuner sur l'herbe painting by Edouard Manet first exhibited at the Salon des Refusés
- The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel
- Salon des Refusés ('Rooms of the Rejected') was a unique exhibition in Paris in 1863, which is frequently cited as the "official" birthday of modern art, the day the exhibition opened.
- The Painter of Modern Life, a series of essays by Charles Baudelaire published in the French newspaper Le Figaro, a study on Constantin Guys published 26, 29 November and 3 December.
- Illustrations by Gustave Doré to Les Contes de Perrault (1697)
- Disasters of War by Francisco de Goya: although produced in the 1810s, these prints are now published for the first time, 35 years after Goya's death.
- "Darwin among the Machines" is published (under the pen name Cellarius) in The Press newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872).
- Dictionnaire Infernal by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, illustrated version
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New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- George Eliot - Romola
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers
- Theophile Gautier - Capitan Fracassa and The Mummy's Foot.
- Julia Kavanagh - Queen Mab
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Churchyard
- Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks
- Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Non-fiction
- William Wells Brown - The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements
- Francis James Child - Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Ernest Renan - The Life of Jesus
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Music
- Modest Mussorgsky begins work on an opera, Salammbô, which is never finished.
- Georges Bizet's opera, Les Pêcheurs de perles debuts at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris (September 30)
- Les Troyens, opera by Hector Berlioz, debuts, also at the Théâtre-Lyrique (November 4)
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Births
- January 8 - Paul Scheerbart, German author and artist (d. 1915)
- January 14 - Richard Felton Outcault, American comic strip scriptwriter(The Yellow Kid) (d. 1928)
- April 3 - Henry Van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement
- March 3 - Arthur Machen, novelist and short story writer
- March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (d. 1938)
- June 1 - Hugo Münsterberg, a German-American psychologist (The Photoplay) (d. 1916)
- September 8 - W. W. Jacobs, short story writer
- October 12 - Martin van Maële (d. 1926)
- November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter
- December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
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Deaths
- August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
- September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- September 20 - Jakob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
- December 24 - William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (b. 1811)
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