Events Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read. New Books Anne of Geierstein - Sir Walter Scott The Chouans - Honore de Balzac A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving Devereux - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Fate and Fortune - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager - Hans Christian Andersen The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock The Naval Officer - Frederick Marryat On the Constitution of Church and State - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Romances of Real Life - Catherine Gore The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli Births March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907) Deaths Awards
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