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1 Events

• Harper & Row publishing house is founded.

2 New Books

• Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Bride and No Wife - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• Claudine - Elizabeth Thomas
• Gonzalo de Balvidio - Ann Hatton
• The Knight of St. John - Anna Maria Porter
• Lalla Rookh (poem) - Thomas Moore
• The Mysteries of Hungary - Edward Moore
• Ormond and Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
• Villa Santelle - Catherine Selden
• Woman's Privilege - Selina Davenport

3 Births

• February 21 - José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet
• May 21 - Rudolf Hermann Lotze, philosopher
• July 12 - Henry David Thoreau (+ 1862Events January-March January 10 End of term for John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford. January 30 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. February 1 Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hy)

4 Deaths

• July 14July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. Events 1223 In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France. 1789 French Revolution: Citizens of - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, author
• July 18July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. Events 390 BC Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. 64 Great fire of Rome: - Jane AustenJane Austen ( December 16, 1775 July 18, 1817) was a prominent British novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fict, author

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