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

Rosalia de Castro is born

Jacques Mandé Daguerre develops daguerrotype image technology, making possible the first photographs

Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers a Phi Beta Kappa speech, “The American Scholar”

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent the electric telegraph

The first Canadian railroad is built

The first Kindergarten is opened by Friedrich Froebel in Germany

The Panic of 1837 strikes America, brought on by speculation and inflated land value

Alexander Pushkin dies

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William Dean Howells is born

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Algernon Charles Swinburne is born

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Henri Becque is born

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Charlotte L. Forten is born