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

The Regulator’s War is waged in North Carolina

Motoori Norinaga publishes Naobi no mitama

Christopher Smart dies

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Thomas Gray dies

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Walter Scott is born

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