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James Whistler's painting Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862) caused controversy when exhibited in London and, later, at the Salon des Refusés in Paris. The painting epitomizes his theory that art should essentially be concerned with the beautiful arrangement of colors in harmony, not with the accurate portrayal of the natural world.

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Art and culture

• Karl Ulrichs, speaking at a conference of Jurists in Munich, becomes the first person in modern times to declare himself homosexual. Although he used the term, "Urning," Ulrichs continued to speak out for gay rights.

Literature

• Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert
• 20 poems from the future Spleen de Paris collection by Charles Baudelaire are published

Art

• The White Girl by Whistler
• The Turkish Bath by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Births

• Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Rupert Carabin (1862 - 1952)
• Arthur Schnitzler (1862 - 1931)
• Maurice Barrès (1862 - 1923)
• Joseph Carey Merrick (August 5, 1862 - April 11, 1890), known as "The Elephant Man",

Deaths

Bohemianism1862 quote: "The term 'Bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gipsey, no matter in what ... La Source (1862) - Gustave Courbet Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) G.H. von Schubert, Die Symbolik des Traumes The Cedars of Lebanon (1862) - Edward Lear Elizabeth Siddall died of an overdose in 1862) Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862) Ponti's Megalethoscope (1862)

• Dostoyevsky visits the Crystal Palace
• Swinburne meets Richard Monckton Milnes, who introduced him to Richard Burton and (in 1862) to the works of the Marquis de Sade. ...

Lady Audley's Secret (1862) - Mary Elizabeth Braddon