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)
