Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1775

  • The First Anglo-Maratha War is fought in India
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals is produced
  • Edmund Burke publishes Conciliation speech is delivered before Parliament
  • Charles Lamb is born (February 10)
  • Jane Austen is born (December 16)
  • The Battles of Lexington and Concord occur, commencing hostilities in the American War for Independence (April 19)

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