Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1834

• Thomas Willis White founds The Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia
• Charles Babbage conceives the principle of the “analytical engine,” the concept behind the modern computer
• Michael Faraday discovers the laws of electrolysis
• The Sixth Kaffir War is fought between Bantu warriors and white colonialists in South Africa
• Thomas Malthus dies (December 23)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies (July 25)
• Charles Lamb dies (December 27)