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)