BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 311                 Wednesday, 6 November 2024         Antwerpen		
I Wish I Could Die
Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
known for his book ‘Walden’


  • 12 July 1817 (+) is born in Concord, United States.

  • 30 April 1844 (x) and his friend Edward Hoar accidentally set a fire that consumed 300 acres (1.2 km2) of Walden Woods in Concord, United States.

  • 6 May 1862 (-) dies of tuberculosis in Concord, United States.


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