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Events

Prose

• April 7: The fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen and others appear in an issue of the series continues Eventyr old for Børn ( Fairy tales, told for children) in Denmark.

• A third - recently extended - edition of Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm appears.
• Heinrich Heine published Ueber den informers. A preface to the third part of the salon.

Poetry

• The late romantic poem moon night of Joseph von Eichendorff was first published.

Periodicals

Political works

Scientific works

• Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini published the first description of the genus Echinopsis as part of the cactus family.

Religion

• May 27: In the Encyclical Summo iugiter studio is Pope Gregory XVI. one on intermarriage and insists on the education of children in the Catholic faith therefrom.

Born

• Sırapyon Manas, Armenian theater director, translator, writer and actor

Died

• February 4: John Latham, British physician, ornithologist, naturalist and author (* 1740)
• FEBRUARY 10: Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (* 1799)
• FEBRUARY 12: Ludwig Borne, German writer (* 1786)