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| 1859 |
| | | French author Stendhal publishes his novel La Chartreuse de Parme ('The Charterhouse of Parma') | |
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| 1859 |
| | | In On Liberty John Stuart Mill makes the classic liberal case for the priority of the freedom of the individual | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Samuel Smiles provides an inspiring ideal of Victorian enterprise in Self-Help, a manual for ambitious young men | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Tennyson publishes the first part of Idylls of the King, a series of linked poems about Britain's mythical king Arthur | |
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| 1859 |
| | | John Brown is captured leading a group of abolitionists to seize arms from the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Abolitionst John Brown is convicted of treason at Harper's Ferry and is hanged | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Charles Dickens publishes his French Revolution novel, A Tale of Two Cities | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Edward FitzGerald publishes The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, romantic translations of the work of the Persian poet | |
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| 1859 |
| | | US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1860 |
| | | The treaty of Turin brings much of north Italy under the control of Cavour (for the kingdom of Sardinia), who in return cedes Savoy and Nice to France | |
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