Calendar of Literary Facts
1817
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
- William Blackwood founds the conservative Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
- The Third Anglo-Maratha War is fought in India
- Henry David Thoreau is born (July 12)
- Frederick Douglass is born (February 14)
- Jane Austen dies (July 18)
- Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen is born (November 30)
