Editing 1870s (section)

==Popular culture==

===Literature and arts===
* [[Jules Verne]] (France) publishes ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days (book)|Around The World in Eighty Days]]''.
* [[Claude Monet]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Camille Pissarro]], and [[Alfred Sisley]] organized the ''Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs'' ("Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers") for the purpose of exhibiting their artworks independently. Members of the association, which soon included [[Paul Cézanne]], [[Berthe Morisot]], and [[Edgar Degas]], were expected to forswear participation in the Salon. The organizers invited a number of other progressive artists to join them in their inaugural exhibition, including the slightly older [[Eugène Boudin]], whose example had first persuaded Monet to take up ''plein air'' painting years before.<ref>Denvir (1990), p.32.</ref> Another painter who greatly influenced Monet and his friends, [[Johan Jongkind]], declined to participate, as did [[Manet]]. In total, thirty artists participated [[First Impressionist Exhibition|in their first exhibition]], held in April 1874 at the studio of the photographer [[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]]. The group soon became known as the ''[[Impressionism|Impressionists]]''.<ref>Bernard Denvir, ''The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism'' (1990).</ref>
*[[Jeanne Calment]], born 1875, would eventually become the longest-living human being with a verified lifespan. She lived until 1997, aged 122. She still holds the record as of November 2024.
*[[Lewis Carroll]] publishes ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]''.
*[[Mark Twain]] publishes ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' in 1876.
*[[Henrik Ibsen]] releases ''[[A Doll's House]]'' in 1879.

===Fashion===
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