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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1842 Literary Facts
The Russian Natural School of anti-Romantic writers flourishes
The Treaty of Nanking opens five Chinese ports to free trade with the British and cedes Hong Kong to Great Britain
Christian Johann Doppler discovers the “Doppler effect”: the effect of velocity on light and sound waves
The Orange Free State is proclaimed by the Boers in southern Africa
Hong Kong becomes a British possession
Sidney Lanier is born
Explore: Song of the Chattahoochee, Sidney Lanier, The Marshes of Glynn
Stéphane Mallarmé is born
Explore: The Afternoon of a Faun, Stéphane Mallarmé
Ambrose Bierce is born
Explore: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Boarded Window, Ambrose Bierce
John Banim dies