Events
- April - John Keats' father dies from a fractured skull, after falling from his horse while returning from visiting John at school.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge re-locates to Malta.
- James Mill publishes a pamphlet critical of the corn trade.
Read more about this topic: 1804 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)