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

February 16 Literary Facts

A friend of Blackwood’s Magazine editor John Gibson Lockhart, affronted by published attacks on Lockhart, fatally wounds London Magazine editor John Scott in a duel with pistols

Giosuè Carducci dies

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Richard Ford is born

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Angela Carter dies

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