Calendar of Literary Facts

1797

  • Hsadullah Khan Ghalib is born
  • Olaudah Equiano dies
  • Friedrich Holderlin publishes Hyperion; oder, Der Eremit in Griechenland (Hyperion: or, The Hermit in Greece)
  • Edmund Burke dies (July 9)
  • Mary Wollstonecraft dies (September 10)
  • Alfred de Vigny is born (March 27)
  • Mary Wollstonecraft (later Mary Shelley) is born (August 30)
  • Gabriel Prosser’s abortive slave revolt is betrayed, leading to the execution of 40 slaves (August 30)