"Frankenstein" Published
Jan 1 Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published anonymously by the small London publishing house of Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones
- Jan 1 Official reopening of the White House
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jan 2 Lord Byron completes the long narrative poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
- Jan 2 The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
- Jan 21 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
"When I Have Fears"
Jan 30 John Keats composes his sonnet "When I Have Fears"
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