Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1845

• Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
• Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• Henry David Thoreau establishes residence at a cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts
• The First Anglo-Sikh War is fought in India
• Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
• Carl Spitteler is born (April 24)