1874
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Art and culture
- Impressionism
- The word impressionniste was printed for the first time in Le Charivari on the 25 April 1874 by Louis Leroy, ... "Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape. ".
- Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns
- The piece is a tone poem, depicting a skeleton playing the violin in a graveyard as his deceased companions dance around the graves. The piece makes particular use of the xylophone to imitate the sounds of rattling bones.
- Les Diaboliques by Barbey d'Aurevilly
- A French language short stories collection, each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits acts of violence, crime, or revenge.
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Flaubert
- Escaping Criticism[1] by Spanish painter Pere Borrell del Caso
- Death of Cleopatra by Rixens
- The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by Hargrave Jennings
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Births
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- July 12 – Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, German artist (d. 1927)
- August 6 – Charles Fort, Dutch-American writer, researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
- December 31 – Holbrook Jackson, English journalist, writer, publisher and bibliophile (died 1948)
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Deaths
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