1861
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1861 is a year of the 1860s.
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Art and culture
- In England, the penalty for conviction for sodomy is reduced from hanging to imprisonment.
- Phryné Before the Areopagus by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Births
- December 8 - Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
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Deaths
- January 28 - Henri Murger, French novelist and poet (Scènes de la Vie de Bohème) (b. 1822)
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