Timeline December 1863

Events in December 1863 3

• 1811 – 1863 William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Died 24 December 1863, aged 52 Thackeray was an English novelist best known for the satirical novel Vanity Fair. He was a leading figure of Victorian literature alongside Charles Dickens.
• 1813 – 1863 Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) Died 13 December 1863, aged 50 Hebbel was a German poet and dramatist whose tragedies, including Maria Magdalena and the Nibelungen trilogy, influenced the development of modern German drama. He worked much of his career in Vienna.
• 1863 – 1944 Edvard Munch Expressionism · Norway Edvard Munch (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Expressionist painter whose The Scream is one of the most iconic images in Western art. His emotionally raw work was a major influence on German Expressionism.