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

The metric system of weights and measurements is developed and adopted in France

Prussian and Russia partition Poland

Napoleon is appointed commander in chief of the French Army in Italy

James Boswell dies

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John Keats is born

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Thomas Carlyle is born

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