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EVENTS

Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Anglo-Saxons '' - Leslie Armstrong

'' The Castle Of Tynemouth '' - Jane Harvey

'' Feudal Tyrants '' - Matthew Gregory Lewis

'' The Heirs Of Villeroy '' - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse

'' Lady Maclairn, The Victim Of Villany '' - Rachel Hunter

'' Leonora '' - Maria Edgeworth

'' Montbrasil Abbey '' - Louisa Stanhope

'' The Mysterious Freebooter '' - Francis Lathom

'' Santo Sebastiano '' - Catherine Cuthbertson

'' The Spanish Outlaw '' - William Herbert

'' Vensenshon '' - Harriet Butler

'' Vivonio '' - Sophia Frances

'' The Wild Irish Girl '' - Lady Morgan

'' Zofloya '' - Charlotte Dacre

NEW DRAMA

Heinrich Von Kleist - ''Der zerbrochene Krug''

POETRY

Jane & Ann Taylor - ''Rhymes for the Nursery''

NON-FICTION

J. C. Adelung - ''Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects''

Johann Gottlieb Fichte - ''Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre''

James Madison - ''An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace''

BIRTHS

March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning , poet (+ 1861 )

April 17 - William Gilmore Simms , author (+ 1870 )

May 20 - John Stuart Mill , philosopher (+ 1873 )

July 20 - John Sterling , author

August 31 - Charles Lever , Anglo-Irish novelist (+ 1872 )

DEATHS

February 12 - Gabriel-Henri Gaillard , French historian

February 24 - Collin D'Harleville , French dramatist

March 3 - Heinrich Christian Boie , German poet and editor

April 4 - Carlo Gozzi , Venetian dramatist

October 28 - Charlotte Turner Smith , poet and novelist

November 23 - Sir Roger Newdigate , founder of the Newdigate Prize

AWARDS