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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

William Blackwood founds the conservative Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine

The Third Anglo-Maratha War is fought in India

Frederick Douglass is born

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Henry David Thoreau is born

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Jane Austen dies

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Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen is born