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

Peter Lombard, author of the Sentences, dies

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Schoolman Alexander of Hales dies

Richard Crashaw dies

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The Nat Turner Slave Revolt erupts in late August, in Southampton County, Virginia, resulting in the death of 60 whites

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Mary Mapes Dodge dies

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Melvin Van Peebles is born

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A. M. Klein dies

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