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Events

• January 23: Joseph Gorres takes over the editorship of the Rheinische Merkur.

Gorres leads in his paper, which appears in Koblenz from 1814 to 1816, a passionate campaign against Napoleon and pleads for a liberal, federalist authored Germany. The magazine is called by Napoleon as "fifth hostile superpower ." The Rheinische Merkur is the first German newspaper, which was recognized and respected throughout Europe.

Libraries

The city of Mainz adopts a regulation requiring all publishers and printers of the town for delivery of deposit copies of their print products to the city library. The Regulation is complied with only patchy until the 20th century.

New releases

Fiction

• Adelbert von Chamisso: Peter Schlemihls wondrous story
• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park will be mentioned without the name of the author.
• Frances Burney: La Femme errante.
• Lord Byron: The Corsair.
• Lord Byron: Lara, Oriental history.
• Walter Scott: Waverley appear anonymously. The book is considered the first English historical novel.
• Robert Southey: Roderick, the Last of the Goths, epic.

Poetry

• Lord Byron: Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte.

Non-fiction

• Ernst Moritz Arndt: Views of German history appears at Rein in Leipzig
• Matthew Flinders: A Voyage to Terra Australis in London.

• Under the title History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, the expedition diaries of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark appear. Lewis and Clark had taken up on behalf of Thomas Jefferson a scientific expedition to St. Lous River through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific.

Essays

• Chateaubriand: De Buonaparte et des Bourbons, a pamphlet against Napoleon
• Benjamin Constant: De l' esprit de conquête et de l' usurpation and Réflexions sur les institutions. Two pamphlets against Napoleon.

Translations

• Christoph Martin Wieland translated Cicero's letters. The translation appears below the title M. Tullius Cicero 's letters Sämmtliche translated and explained by CM Wieland in publishing Macklot in Stuttgart.

Born

• June 8: Charles Reade, English novelist and playwright († 1884)

• AUGUST 28: Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer of novels showers († 1873)

• October 3: Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet († 1841)
• November 6: William Wells Brown, American historian, playwright and novelist († 1884)

• December 27: Jules Simon, French philosopher († 1896)

Died

• January 4: Johann Georg Jacobi, German poet (* 1740)
• January 27: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (* 1762)
• February 24: Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic (* 1743)

• September 22: August Wilhelm Iffland, German actor, theater director and playwright (* 1759)
• 4 October: Samuel Jackson Pratt, English poet and dramatist (* 1749)
• NOVEMBER 10: Abbé Aubert, French poet, playwright and journalist (* 1731)
• December 2: Marquis de Sade, French author (* 1740)