1865
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Le Ministère de la Marine (1865-1866) is a print by French etcher Charles Méryon depicting the marine ministry "attacked" by a charging flock of fantastic creatures.
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Olympia (detail) by Édouard Manet was a succès de scandale when it was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1865. Today, it is considered as the start of modern art.

A Clearing in the Woods (1865) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (1865) by Thomas Wright
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1865 is a year of the 1860s.
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Events
- Paris Salon of 1865 opens in May
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Art
- Manet's Olympia
- Le Ministère de la Marine by Charles Meryon
- Proudhon and His Children by Gustave Courbet
- Rosine à sa toilette by Antoine Wiertz
- The Virgin of the Nile (1865) by Federico Faruffini
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Literature
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Fiction
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune)
- Wilhelm Busch - Max und Moritz
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Non-fiction
- Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
- Geschichte des Materialismus by Friedrich Albert Lange
- History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright
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Births
- February 28 – Arthur Symons (d. 1945)
- June 13 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (d. 1932)
- June 13 – W. B. Yeats, Irish writer (d. 1939)
- June 26 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959)
- August 2 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
- December 20 – Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite, interior decorator (d. 1950)
- December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter, printmaker (d. 1925)
- December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer (d. 1936)
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Deaths
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- June 18 - Antoine Wiertz, Belgian romantic painter and sculptor (b. 1806).
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