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EVENTS

The play '' La Cocarde Tricolore '' by the Cogniard Brothers introduces the term "''chauvinism''."

William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the ''Liberator'', an abolitionist periodical.

'' The Sydney Morning Herald '' is first published.

NEW BOOKS

'' Gerald Fitzgerald '' - Anne Hatton

'' Notre Dame De Paris '' - Victor Hugo

'' The Last Of The Lyals '' - Rosalia St. Clair

'' The Queen's Page '' - Selina Davenport

'' The Spirit Of The Age '' - John Stuart Mill

'' The Tuileries '' - Catherine Gore

'' The Young Duke '' - Benjamin Disraeli

NEW DRAMA

Robert Montgomery Bird - ''Gladiator''

POETRY

Giacomo Leopardi - ''Canti''

Edgar Allan Poe - ''Poems''

BIRTHS

January 2 - Justin Winsor , historian and librarian (+ 1897)

January 26 - Mary Mapes Dodge , writer (+ 1907 )

February 16 - Nikolai Leskov , novelist (+ 1895)

August 1 - William Aldis Wright , literary editor (+ 1914)

September 5 - Victorien Sardou , dramatist (+ 1908)

October 15 - Helen Hunt Jackson , writer-activist (+ 1885 )

DEATHS

January 2 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr , historian

January 21 - Ludwig Achim Von Arnim

February 25 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , dramatist and novelist, originator of '' Sturm Und Drang ''

April 4 - Isaiah Thomas , publisher

June 30 - William Roscoe , English poet

December 18 - Willem Bilderdijk , Dutch author

AWARDS