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

The Spasmodic school of literature flourishes in England and Scotland

The Opium War is fought in China between the British and the Chinese

The first bicycle is built by a Scotsman, Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Charles Goodyear develops the process of vulcanizing rubber

René François Armand Prudhomme (Sully Prudhomme) is born

William Apess dies

Joaquim María Machado de Assis is born

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African slaves take over the Spanish slaver Amistad and sail to Montauk, Long Island