Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1828

• Andrew Jackson wins the U.S. presidential election, ushering in the age of “Jacksonian democracy”
• Robert S. Rintoul founds The Spectator in London
• The Athenaeum, a popular weekly magazine, is founded in London by James Silk Buckingham
• The first American railroad is built, the Baltimore and Ohio
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti is born
• George Meredith is born (February 12)
• Henrik Ibsen is born (March 20)
• Leo Tolstoy is born (August 28)