Calendar of Literary Facts

1811

Jane Austen publishes Sense and Sensibility
The Luddites arise in England and destroy factory machinery
The Mamelukes are massacred in Cairo, Egypt
American military forces under William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh and his Indian forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, in Indiana
A war for independence from European rule is waged throughout South America
Harriet Beecher (Stowe) is born (June 14)
William Makepeace Thackeray is born (July 18)
Heinrich von Kleist dies (November 21)
Theophile Gautier is born (August 30)