Events
- Ambrose Bierce is wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
- Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
- Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.
- A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).
- Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
- John Addington Symonds the younger marries Janet Catherine North.
- James Payn publishes his most popular story, Lost Sir Massingberd, in Chambers's Journal.
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