Calendar of Literary Facts
1807
- Heinrich von Kleist publishes Amphitryon: Ein Lustspiel nach Molière (Amphitryon) is produced
- Charles Lamb publishes Tales from Shakespeare
- English manufacturers Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier patent a wood-pulp machine that can make sheets of paper of any size
- Slavery is abolished in Great Britain
- Robert Fulton tests his paddle-wheel steamboat in the Hudson River
- John Greenleaf Whittier is born (December 7)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born (February 27)
