Main events	Crimean War: Fall of Sebastopol, Sep 8-10 Leopold II succeeds in Belgium
In Paris	World Fair, May to November Courbet's Realism Expo Offenbach starts Les Bouffes Parisiens for operettas Whistler arrives
Music	Verdi: Sicilian Vespers
Literature	Longfellow: Haiawatha Whitman: Leaves of Grass Dickens: Little Dorrit Tennyson: Maud Nerval commits suicide Thackeray: Vanity Fair into French
October 5th: Goldschmidt discovers asteroid Atalanta