
Serialisation of the novel Night and Morning (original author not acknowledged, but in fact by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1841) as Xinxi xiantan by "Lishao Jushi" (probably Jiang Qizhang) begins in the Shanghai monthly Yinghuan Suoji, the first secular fiction translated from English into Chinese.

December 18 – Louisa May Alcott's family satire " Transcendental Wild Oats" is published in the newspaper The Independent.Nicholas Magazine begins publication by Scribner and Company in New York under the editorship of Mary Mapes Dodge. November – The children's periodical St.July 10 – Paul Verlaine shoots and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.Although this is Hardy's third novel, it is the first to bear his name on publication in the U.S. July – Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes completes its serialization in Tinsley's Magazine (begun September 1872) and appears in book format in London.March 18 – Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina, which is serialized in Russkiy Vestnik ( Moscow) between 18.March 10 - The first Azerbaijani play The Adventure of a Miser (The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran) by Mirza Fatali Akhundov was performed by Hasan bey Zardabi and dramatist Najaf bey Vazirov.

Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett's play The Happy Land at the Royal Court Theatre, London, parodies William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Lowe, and Acton Smee Ayrton, respectively the prime minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and First Commissioner of Works.
