April 22 –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and fellow members of the literary
Petrashevsky Circle in Russia are arrested for expressing their progressive views. Sentenced to death on
November 16 and facing a firing squad on
December 23, he and some others are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the
katorga prison camps in
Siberia.
May 28 –
Anne Brontë dies of
tuberculosis aged 29 at
Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast of England, where she is buried. Until 2013, her headstone mistakenly gives her age as 28.[6]
Thomas Phillips – Wales, the Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, considered in their relation to Education...
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