Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
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Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
Isaac Newton's calculations and theories based on Kepler's laws were read to the Royal Society in London.
