1859 also saw:
On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens
Idylls of the King by Tennyson
Rub·iy·t of Omar Kh·yyam by Edward Fitzgerald
Adam Bede by George Sand [Amadine Dupin]
Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
ìAt The Pianoî by James McNeill Whistler
ìDixieî composed by Daniel Emmett
Work on the Suez Canal begins by de Lesseps
First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania
Oregon becomes a state of the USA
and
The Anthropological Society of Paris is created!
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