Lewis Carroll was born on 27 January 1832 in Daresbury. A British author and scholar, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Carroll was born in Cheshire and spent most of his adult life at Christ Church, Oxford, where he taught mathematics and was ordained a deacon. Under his pen name he wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which grew out of stories he told to Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college's dean, and her sisters. These works, along with the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark, are famous for their wordplay and logic. As Dodgson he also wrote on mathematics and logic, and he was a pioneering amateur photographer.
Before and after
- 19 November 1831Birth of James A. Garfield
- from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836Second voyage of HMS Beagle
- from 1832 to 1835Republic of Indian Stream
- 23 January 1832Birth of Édouard Manet
- 27 January 1832Birth of Lewis Carroll
- from 6 February 1832 to 9 February 1832First Sumatran expedition
- 22 March 1832Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 19 April 1832Birth of José Echegaray
- from May 1832 to August 1832Black Hawk War
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