July 18 – The body of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, is washed up on the beach near Viareggio in Italy, ten days after he left Livorno (where he set up The Liberal magazine with Leigh Hunt) for Lerici, where Shelley had been living with his wife Mary; his boat, the Don Juan, had sunk in a storm in the Ligurian Sea. His body is cremated on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron and Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.[1]
^ ab"The Sinking of the Don Juan" by Donald Prell, Keats–Shelley Journal, Vol. LVI, 2007, pp. 136–54
^Christian Herald (1903). The Crown Encyclopedia and Gazetteer: A Reference Library of Universal Knowledge, Embracing Five Hundred Illustrations and Over Sixty-five Thousand Subjects, All Brought Down to the Date of Publication, with Ninety-six Colored Maps (Public domain ed.). Christian Herald. pp. 205–.
^J. Alexander Ogden; Judith E. Kalb (2001). Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Gale Group. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-7876-4655-4.
^Birgit Röder; R?der (2003). A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Boydell & Brewer. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-57113-271-0.
^University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge(PDF). Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. Retrieved 2008-10-01.