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The first volume of John James Audubon 's 10-volume '' The Birds Of America '' is published.

Noah Webster publishes his 70,000 word '' American Dictionary Of The English Language ''.

NEW BOOKS

'' Africa Described, In Its Ancient And Present State '' - Barbara Hofland

'' The Ambassador's Secretary '' - Jane Harvey

'' The Collegians '' - Gerald Griffin

'' The Fair Maid Of Perth '' - Sir Walter Scott

'' Italian Vengeance And English Forbearance '' - Selina Davenport

'' De Lisle '' - Elizabeth Caroline Grey

'' The Mummy! '' - Jane C. Loudon

'' Pelham '' - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

'' Rachel Dyer '' - John Neal

'' The Red Barn '' - Robert Huish

'' The Three Musketeers '' - Alexandre Dumas Père

'' Ulrica Of Saxony '' - Rosalia St. Clair

'' Uncle Peregrine's Heiress '' - Anne Hatton

NEW DRAMA

Franz Grillparzer - ''Ein Treuer Diener''

Johan Ludvig Heiberg - '' Elverhøi ''

NON-FICTION

Washington Irving - ''The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus ''

BIRTHS

February 8 - Jules Verne , novelist and science fiction pioneer (d. 1905 )

February 12 - George Meredith , novelist and poet (d. 1909 )

February 14 - Edmond About , novelist and journalist (d. 1885)

March 20 - Henrik Johan Ibsen , dramatist (d. 1906 )

April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (d. 1897 )

May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (d. 1882 )

September 9 - Leo Tolstoy , novelist (d. 1910 )

October 8 - Francisque Sarcey , journalist and critic (d. 1899)

DEATHS

January 16 - Johann Samuel Ersch , bibliographer

January 26 - Lady Caroline Lamb , novelist and lover of Lord Byron

March 16 - Johann Georg August Galletti , historian

April 25 - François Benoît Hoffmann , dramatist and critic

June 8 - William Coxe , historian

June 11 - Dugald Stewart , philosopher

June 21 - Leandro Fernández De Moratín , Spanish dramatist & poet

October 13 - Vincenzo Monti , poet

''date unknown'' - Henry Livingston Jr. , poet

AWARDS