Calendar of Literary Facts

1860

  • George Eliot publishes The Mill on the Floss
  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States; South Carolina secedes from the Union
  • George M. Smith and William Makepeace Thackeray found The Cornhill Magazine in London
  • George Augustus Sala founds the magazine Temple Bar in London
  • J. M. Barrie is born (May 9)
  • Anton Chekhov is born (January 17)

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