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Fagundes Varela
Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela (August 17, 1841 – February 18, 1875) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. He is patron of the 11th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Biography Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela was born in Rio Claro in 1841, to Emiliano Fagundes Varela and Emília de Andrade. He spent most of his childhood at the farm where he was born, later moving to innumerous places, among them the city of Catalão, Goiás, where he met Bernardo Guimarães. Returning to Rio de Janeiro, he lived in Angra dos Reis and Petrópolis, where he concluded his primary and secondary studies. In 1859, he went to São Paulo and, in 1862, he enrolled at the Largo de São Francisco Law School, but abandoned it to dedicate himself to the literature and to the bohemianism. He published his first poetry book, ''Noturnas'', one year before. He married a circus artist from Sorocaba, Alice Guilhermina Luande. This provoked a scandal in his family an ...
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Rio Claro, Rio De Janeiro
Rio Claro () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a .... Its population was 18,605 (2020) and its area is 841 km². IBGE /ref> References Municipalities in Rio de Janeiro (state) {{RiodeJaneiro-geo-stub ...
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Recife
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1875 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year (Third Class is renamed Second Class in 1956). * January 5 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris. * January 12 – Guangxu becomes the 11th Qing Dynasty Emperor of China at the age of 3, in succession to his cousin. * January 14 – The newly proclaimed King Alfonso XII of Spain (Queen Isabella II's son) arrives in Spain to restore the monarchy during the Third Carlist War. * February 3 – Third Carlist War – Battle of Lácar: Carlist commander Torcuato Mendíri secures a brilliant victory, when he surprises and routs a Government force under General Enrique Bargés at Lácar, east of Estella, nearly capturing newly crowned King Alfonso XII. The C ...
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1841 Births
Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 7,500. * January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered, and named by James Clark Ross. * January 28 – Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror. * January 30 – A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the villa (modern-day city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. * February 4 – First known reference to Groundhog Day in North America, in the diary of a James Morris. * February 10 – The Act of Union (''British North America Act'', 1840) is proclaimed in Canada. * February 11 – The two colonies of the Canadas are merged, into the United Province of Canada. * February ...
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1880 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880. Events *April – Publication in France of ''Les Soirées de Médan'', a collection of six Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, '' Boule de Suif'', which launches his career. *April 20 ( O. S.: April 8) – At the Romanian Academy, Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet, adopted by a commission also comprising George Bariț and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. The rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists". *May – In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company. * June 6 – Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow. *Octobe ...
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1878 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878. Events *January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. *June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories '' The Suicide Club'' featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in ''The London Magazine''. *June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS ''Mavis''. *July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. *August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France. *October – The Peabody ...
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1875 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1875. Events *January 16 – Henry James Byron's comedy ''Our Boys'' opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879. It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre. *February/March – Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, and gives him the manuscript of his poems ''Illuminations''. Rimbaud stops writing literature entirely at the age of 20. *February 12 – Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as ''In Hospital''. *April 28 – Henry James pub ...
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1869 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1869. Events * February 3 – Booth's Theatre opens on Manhattan with the owner, Edwin Booth, playing the male lead in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''. *May 10 – As a protest against her drama school having been closed down by the Russian authorities, Swedish-born actress Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm delivers the lines in her next performance, Aleksis Kivi's ''Lea'', in the Finnish language, the first time it has been spoken in the public theatre in Finland. *May 22 – Serial publication of Anthony Trollope's novel ''He Knew He Was Right'' concludes and it appears in London as the first book to include a fictional private investigator, ex-policeman Samuel Bozzle. *August **Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco ''News Letter'', begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become ''The Devil's Dictionary''. **Macmillan Publishing opens its first American off ...
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1865 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1865. Events *January – The first issue appears of ''Our Young Folks'', an American monthly for children produced by Ticknor and Fields in Boston. *February – Publication of Leo Tolstoy's ''1805'', an early version of ''War and Peace'', begins in the magazine '' Russkiy Vestnik''. *April 14 – The President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is shot while attending a performance of the farce ''Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln dies the following day. *June 9 – Charles Dickens is caught in the Staplehurst rail crash in Kent, England, together with the actress Ellen Ternan and her mother. Dickens is deeply affected by the event for the rest of his life. *June 14 – Karl May begins a four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at Osterstein Castle (Zwickau). *July – The American magazine for chi ...
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1864 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1864. —Opening of '' Our Mutual Friend'' Events *January – Anthony Trollope's ''Can You Forgive Her?'', the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, '' The Small House at Allington'' concludes publication in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' and is published in book form by George Smith. * January 2–April 16 – James Payn publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''. He follows it in the magazine (August 6 – December 24) by ''Married Beneath Him''. * February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. *March (dated January–February) – The first issue of the Russian literary magazine ''Ep ...
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1861 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1861. Events *January 5 – The first issue of the '' Weekly Budget'' magazine is published by James Henderson. "North British Weekly Budget", ''Victorian Periodicals''
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