1881
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1881 was the 881st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1880s decade.
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Art and culture
- "Les Romanciers naturalistes" by Zola
- by 1881, the French government withdrew its support from the official Paris Salons
- The Tales of Hoffmann, opera, performed for the first time, freedom of the press in France
- Law on the Freedom of the Press of 29 July 1881
- "Théorie de la Décadence" by Paul Bourget
- Paraphrases about the Finding of a Glove by Max Klinger
- Bouvard et Pécuchet, an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert
- La Glu, a novel by French writer Jean Richepin
- Stillleben mit Austern und Zitrone, a painting by Josef Lauer
- In the Tepidarium by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Les Maîtres ornemanistes (1880-1881)
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Births
- Giovanni Papini (1881 - 1956)
- William Ivins Jr. (1881 – 1961)
- Stefan Zweig (1881 – 1942)
- Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Deaths
- February 5 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
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