November 21 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1887
Sherlock Holmes makes his debut
In Beeton's Christmas Annual -- its title page bearing 21 November 1887 -- a young Portsmouth doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle publishes A Study in Scarlet. In it, Dr Watson meets an eccentric consulting detective at 221B Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes is born; the world does not know it yet.