Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal.

Edouard Manet, Dejeuner sur l'herbe, Salon des Refuses.
James M. Whistler, The White Girl, Salon des Refuses.

Edouard Manet, Olympia, shown at Salon.

Exhumation of Elizabeth Siddall to retrieve poems by D.G. Rossetti (she died of an overdose in 1862).

"Robert Buchanan" (pseudonym for Thomas Maitland), published "The Fleshly School of Poetry," an attack on the Pre- Raphaelites and especially D.G. Rosseti.

First Impressionist Show held in Nadar's studio in Paris.

Whistler vs. Ruskin Trial in London.

Hans Jaeger, Christiania-Bohemia, book immediately censored in Norway; prison term for Jaeger.

Christian Krohg, Albertine; book censored. Krohg exhibited painting on the theme in 1887.

Last Impressionist show.
Emile Zola, L'Oeuvre; alienates Cezanne, Monet.

James Ensor, The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889; painting rejected by Les XX.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner.

Max Nordau, Degeneration.
Edvard Munch exhibits at the Verein Berliner Kunstler; show closed by authorities.

Oscar Wilde trial.

Vienna Secession founded.

Gustav Klimt's murals for the University of Vienna rejected.