Events January - Honore Daumier is released from prison after serving a 6-month term for caricaturing King Louis-Philippe of France as Gargantua in La Caricature. New Books Alroy - Benjamin Disraeli The Country Doctor - Honore de Balzac Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac Gamiani - Alfred de Musset Godolphin - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb Lelia - George Sand Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle Tom Cringle's Log - Michael Scott Births October 21 - Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize (+ 1896) November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, writer (+ 1873) Deaths September 15 - Arthur Henry Hallam, poet Awards