See also: 1864 in literature, other events of 1865, 1866 in literature, list of years in literature.Events
- June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash.
- November 18 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
- Edwin Abbott Abbott becomes headmaster of the City of London School at the age of 26.
New books
- Alec Forbes of Howglen - George MacDonald
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
- Germinie Lacerteux - Edmond de Goncourt
- Guy Deverell - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
- Iracema - José de Alencar
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Lighthouse - RM Ballantyne
- Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds - Robert Smith Surtees
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
New drama
Poetry
- Edward Lear - The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
Non-fiction
- Jacob Grimm - Deutsche Sagen
- Karl Marx - Value, Price and Profit
- John Stuart Mill - Examinations of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
Births
- February 21 - John Haden Badley, teacher and writer (+ 1967)
- March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914)
- March 20 - Arthur Bayldon, poet (+ 1958)
- March 29 - Stephen Bonsal, diplomat and writer (+ 1951)
- June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939)
- June 26 - Bernard Berenson, art historian (+ 1959)
- August 14 - Pietro Gori, poet (+ 1911)
- September 11 - Rainis, poet and dramatist (+ 1929)
- December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936)
- date unknown - Enrico Corradini, novelist and journalist (+ 1931)
Deaths
- January 11 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland, historian
- January 18 - Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, diarist
- January 19 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, philosopher
- January 21 - Joseph Xavier Saintine, novelist and dramatist
- February 6 - Isabella Beeton, household management expert
- February 25 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright
- April 2
- *John Cassell, publisher
- *Richard Cobden, political writer
- May 14 - Pierre François Xavier de Ram, historian
- June 10 - Lydia Sigourney, poet
- September 30 - Dudley Costello, journalist and novelist
- November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
- December 1 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, poet
- December 3 - Joseph Marie Quérard, bibliographer
- date unknown - William Edmonstoune Aytoun, poet and humorist
Awards
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