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.
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“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
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