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Art and culture
- Charles Baudelaire inherits his father's fortune
- Charles Baudelaire meets Jeanne Duval
- The term Dinosauria is coined.
- The first issue of the Illustrated London News is published.
New books and short stories
- "The Quadroons", a short story by Lydia Marie Child on the tragic mulatto trope
- "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf
- "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Poe
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- Gaspard de la nuit by Aloysius Bertrand first published posthumously
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Zanoni
- Nikolai Gogol
- Eugène Sue - The Mysteries of Paris
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 11 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
- February 25 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
- March 18 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- June 24 - Ambrose Bierce , American writer (d. 1914)
- October 1 - Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
- December 9 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
Deaths
- March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
- July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
- September 4 - Peter Fendi, German artist (b. 1796)
- November 17 - John Varley, watercolour painter
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