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Current affairs Date Science and the Arts
Roman Republic is established
Taylor elected twelfth
President of US
1849 6 January
5 February
4 March
22 May
7 October
17 October
1 November
Hartley Coleridge dies
Maria Edgeworth dies,
Edgeworthstown
Poe dies, Baltimore
Chopin dies, Paris
Wordsworths Poetical Works (6 vols),
last edition in his lifetime, begins
publishing
De Quincey publishes The English
Mail-Coach, anonymously, in
Blackwoods (for October)
American Express founded
Taylor dies, to be succeeded as
US President by Fillmore
California admitted to the
Union
1850 18 March
23 April
July
9 July
18 August
September
Wordsworth dies, aged 80
The Prelude first published,
posthumously
Balzac dies, Paris
1851 1 February Mary Shelley dies, Chester Square,
London, aged 53
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