Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1816

• Argentina declares its independence from Spain
• The Diet of German Confederation is opened by Klemens von Metternich at Frankfurt
• Leigh Hunt publishes The Story of Rimini
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan dies (July 7)
• The first independent black denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is organized (April 9)
• Charlotte Brontë is born (April 21)