Tolstoy's War and Peace
1869
After six years of writing, Leo Tolstoy finished his enormous novel about five Russian families and the Napoleonic invasion. It was so long his friends joked it could only be read in serial. The book - hundreds of characters and a philosophy of history - became the standard by which novels were measured.
In context
Also in 1869 (5 other events on record)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table · Europe · Science
- Transcontinental Railroad Completed · North America · Technology
- Suez Canal Opens · Middle East · Technology
- Vatican I Opens · Europe · Religion
- Black Friday Gold Panic · North America · Disaster
Before and after in Europe
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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