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EVENTS

Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frederick Marryat is promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War Of 1812 .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Absentee '' - Maria Edgeworth

'' Arrivals From India '' - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse

'' The Confessional Of Valombre '' - Louisa Stanhope

'' Declaration Of Rights '' - Percy Shelley

'' Emilie De Coulanges '' - Maria Edgeworth

'' The Fortress Del Vechii '' - Ann Hatton

'''' - Jane West

'' The Milesian Chief '' - Charles Robert Maturin

'' The Swiss Family Robinson '' - Johann David Wyss

'' The Vindictive Spirit '' - Bridget Bluemantle

'' Vivian '' - Maria Edgeworth

NON-FICTION

John Galt - ''Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics''

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - ''Die objektive Logik''

W. M. Leake - ''Greece''

James Maitland, 8th Earl Of Lauderdale - ''The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved''

John Nichols - ''The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century'', volume 1

POETRY

Lord Byron - '' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ''

BIRTHS

February 7 - Charles Dickens , English writer (d. 1870 )

February 19 - Zygmunt Krasiński , Polish poet

May 7 - Robert Browning , English poet (d. 1889 )

May 12 - Edward Lear English writer (d. 1888 )

June 18 - Ivan Goncharov Russian writer (d. 1891 )

July 5 - Antonio García Gutiérrez , Spanish dramatist (d. 1884 )

August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury , British author (d. 1880 )

December 23 - Samuel Smiles , self-help author (d. 1904)

DEATHS

February 24 - Hugo Kołłątaj , historian and philosopher

March 24 - Johann Jakob Griesbach , Biblical commentator

July 14 - Christian Gottlob Heyne , librarian and classicist

November 16 - John Walter , founder of ''The Times'' newspaper

December 22 - Pierre Henri Larcher , classical scholar

''date unknown'' - Martha Ballard , diarist

''date unknown'' - Jacques Marie Boutet , dramatist and actor

''date unknown'' - Zalkind Hourwitz , essayist

''date unknown'' - Levshin Platon , church historian

AWARDS