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| * [[Galileo Galilei]]'s [[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems|''Dialogue'']] is taken off the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the [[Roman Catholic Church]]'s list of banned books. | * [[Galileo Galilei]]'s [[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems|''Dialogue'']] is taken off the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the [[Roman Catholic Church]]'s list of banned books. | ||
| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| - | * [[April 10]] – [[George Lippard]] (d. 1854) | + | * [[April 10]] – [[George Lippard]], American writer (d. 1854) |
| * [[May 26]] – [[Edmond de Goncourt]], French writer (d. [[1896]]) | * [[May 26]] – [[Edmond de Goncourt]], French writer (d. [[1896]]) | ||
| * [[December 24]] – [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (d. [[1888]]) | * [[December 24]] – [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (d. [[1888]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- On Love by Stendhal
- Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy by Théodore Géricault
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
- Trilby by Charles Nodier
- First publication of Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova
Events
- March 31 – Greek War of Independence: Start of Chios Massacre, during which 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios are slaughtered by Ottoman troops and 23,000 exiled.
- July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine"
- July 31 – The last public whipping is carried out in Edinburgh.
- Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogue is taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
Births
- April 10 – George Lippard, American writer (d. 1854)
- May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
- December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
- December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist (d. 1895)
Deaths
- June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (b. 1776)
- July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- August 12 – Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885)
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