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EVENTS

The Académie Française publishes a new edition of its dictionary.

NEW BOOKS

''Alcuin: a Dialogue'' - Charles Brockden Brown

'' Lyrical Ballads '' - published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth

''Wieland'' - Charles Brockden Brown

NEW DRAMA

''Wallensteins Lager'' - Friedrich Von Schiller

BIRTHS

January 5 - David Macbeth Moir , poet and humorist

February 17 - Auguste Comte

March 30 - Luise Hensel

June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi , Italian poet

DEATHS

June 4 - Giacomo Casanova

June 20 - Jeremy Belknap , historian of New Hampshire

December 16 - Thomas Pennant , traveller

AWARDS