The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin, which greatly simplifies the processing of cotton bolls and leads to an increased demand for slave labor to supply the nation’s demand for cotton

Karl Marx dies

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Horton Foote is born

Explore: Horton Foote, The Trip to Bountiful, Farewell

Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. dies

Edward Abbey dies

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