🎨 Pride and Prejudice is published (1813)
Where: Chawton, UK
📅 On This Day: January 28
January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is published. On 28 January 1813, Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was first published. At first it did not carry her name, only "by the author of Sense and Sensibility". The small table where she wrote still stands in Jane Austen's House in Chawton, England.
✨ More events on this day
- 1884 🧭 Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard was born; he rode a balloon high into the stratosphere and later built a deep-sea diving vessel, the bathyscaphe.
- 1896 🎨 Walter Arnold in Kent, England, became the first person ever fined for speeding: he drove about 13 km/h and paid one shilling.
- 1958 💡 The Lego company patented its brick design, and bricks made today still click together with the ones made back then.
🧠 Question of the day
How was the author named in the first edition?
- "By the author of Sense and Sensibility"
- Jane Austen
- Shakespeare
Show the answer
Answer: "By the author of Sense and Sensibility"
🎂 Landmarks that opened on January 28
Questions
What happened on January 28?
January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is published. It happened in Chawton, UK.
Which landmarks opened on January 28?
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (completed 1982).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.