Main events	French Empire declared December 2 by Napolean III
Music	Brahms: Sonatas op 1,2,3 Schumann: Manfred Liszt: Sonata in B Minor
Literature	Tolstoy: Childhood Marx: 18th Brumaire Tennyson: Ode to Wellington Hugo: Napolean Petit Baudelaire on Poe Nerval: Illusions Gautier: Emaux et Camees Gogol dies
November 15th: Goldschmidt discovers asteroid Lutetia